Euthanasia And The First Amendment
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Physician-assisted suicide presents one of the greatest dilemmas to the
medical profession. Should someone who is mentally competent, but deemed
terminally ill, be allowed to engage in physician-assisted suicide?
According to the First Amendment of The Constitution of The United States,
“one has ....
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.... provides the patient
with the means and/or knowledge to commit suicide”(Death and Dying,91). “
Euthanasia is when the physician administers the death causing drug or
agent”(Death and Dying,92). The most recent case is that of The State of
Florida v. Charles Hall. “Charles Hall is dying of AIDS and challenged the
State of Florida to let him die by a self-administered lethal injection
without fear of prosecution”(http://www.rights.org/ deathnet/open.html).
On January 31, 1997, a J ....
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