Legalizing Physician Assisted Suicide
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Our ability to sustain the lives of the terminally ill and permanently unconscious has increased more than ever. Higher longevity rates and the ability to survive life-threatening traumas have come from the advances made through new medical technologies. More people are living these prolonged or ....
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.... to the patient in controlling the kind of treatment received in the final days of life. The dying individual regains dignity and respect in this difficult right to die issue.
There are several terms related to euthanasia that must be understood. In this country the most widely used right to die policy comes in the form of refusing medical treatment. This term is known as passive euthanasia. This is the allowing of the disconnection of life support equipment or stopping of life-sustaining ....
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