We have the right to refuse treatment but without out the right to end our pain, refusing treatment would be extremely painful. ... Walter Sacket, a medical doctor who was elected as a Florida State Representative, believes that the advances in medicine and technology are costly and inhumane (Ekland-Olson & Aseltine 19). ... " Through his own experience he believed that the advances in medicine in many cases inhumanely prolonged suffering and life, (Ekland-Olson & Aseltine 21). Until the 1990's when the informed consent was brought into policy, patients did not have a choice as to...

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This demonstrates an overwhelming support for the fair treatment of animals. ... Furthermore, opponents of animal rights justify the harmful treatment of animals by citing the differences in species between the two. ... There are also anti-cruelty policies in place that seek to reduce the cruel treatment of animals (Sunstein, n/a). ...

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If someone writes in a living will, while they are still declared mentally stable, that they would not want their life to be prolonged by certain treatments or life support, then the law would have to respect that. ... People say that assisted suicide is cruel, heartless, inhumane, and unethical. But in my opinion forcing a person suffer against their final wishes is extremely cruel, heartless, inhumane, and unethical ...

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The first fallacy that I found while analyzing Golden's article was when she said that health insurance companies were telling their policyholders that their treatment to prolong care would not be covered, but instead of paying for that treatment, they would pay for their assisted suicide. ... I understand that insurance companies might want you to get the cheaper treatment because they wouldn't have to pay as much for you to receive it, but they wouldn't say "we will pay for you to die.... To me, forcing a terminally ill patient to continue living is inhumane. ...

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