Everyone would love to prolong life as long as possible and hope for a cure, patients experiencing serious loss of autonomy from cancer or advanced stages of ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease) or Alzheimer's disease, are the ones most likely to apply for physician-assisted suicide to alleviate their pain and suffering and die with dignity. Some states argue that Physicians will be violating their "Hippocratic oath" that they should do no harm, actually by refusing patients the means to end their intolerable and incurable pain and suffering physicians are causing harm to them, they are not ca...

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This so called "mercy killing" gives the patient a chance to escape potentially long-term suffering and misery resulting from terminal diseases and conditions that are hurting and or slowly killing the patient. This method of death also gives the individual a chance to decide when to end his or her life, by committing suicide in a peaceful manner rather than waiting through prolonged and continuous periods of suffering from the disease that it is killing him or her. ...

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