... involuntary euthanasia is the ending of the patient's life without a direct request from the patient (Kass 25). The possibility of the occurrence of involuntary euthanasia due to abuse of a law legalizing physician-assisted suicide is a genuine fear of many opponents. Palliative care is used to ease the physical and mental pain associated with terminal illness (Foley 293; Byock 116). An international ... and of those attributes that we associate particularly with being a human are the factors that most commonly reduce patients to a state of unrelieved misery and desperation" (Rogatz). O...

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