1. Physician Assisted suicide should be legalized
... allowed the choice of physician-assisted suicide. To truly understand the concept of physician-assisted suicide we must first familiarize ourselves with the terms that accompany it. The Oxford English Dictionary defines suicide as the act of taking one's own life; it originates from the Latin word suicidium when broken down sui, means of oneself, while cidium, is equivalent to the ... suffix -cide which means killer ("Suicide"). The Oxford English Dictionary also defines assisted suicide as suicide effected with the assistance of another person ("Assisted suicide"). One type of suicide ...
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