What are the Pro's of euthanasia?
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I think it should be a fundamental constitutional right.\n\nThe Oregon Death with Dignity Act, by voter initiative, allows for physician-assisted suicide for the terminally ill, mentally competent individuals subject to several restrictions.  Once Bush got into office, his evangelical Attorney General attempted to use federal statutes regulating the use of prescription medication to overturn the Oregon law.  (So much for Republicans being federalists and conservatives...that's when I stopped voting Republican.)\n\nThe Supreme Court has implied several "constitutional rights" from the scant text of the Fourteenth Amendment to the constitution ("due process"), which are premised on the notion that to have a real functioning democracy, one should have certain inalienable rights not specifically mentioned in the Bill of Rights.  One of the most controversial is the right to privacy, which covers a large - e.g., right to not have the government interfere in family matters (except incest, statutory rape, and polygamy), the right to keep the government from making a woman carry a child to term (subject to a variety of restrictions after the fetus is viable).  That said, shouldn't the right to end your own life to stop the pain of an incurable terminal disease (with the restrictions similar to those allowed under Oregon statutes) be a fundamental civil right?
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It wasn't pleasant and in fact it was awful but when I had to have my Basset hound euthanized the vet injected her and she just fell asleep instantly.  I feel that this was the most humane way I could do it although it was heart breaking.  I sorta wish it was legal for humans that are terminally ill and in pain.  It's the way I would want it for me if that were so.
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Murder-you have no right to inflict harm unto another living soul. But sin and suicide are almost equally as bad. There is always an alternative.
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Euthanasia is the overall term used to describe a medical process whereby a sickly patient ends his/her life rather than continue suffering until an inevitable death.  Physician assisted suicide is just one type of euthanasia.\n\n"Voluntary active euthanasia is the intentionally administering medication or other interventions to cause the patient's death at the patient's explicit request and with fully informed consent. Involuntary active euthanasia is the intentionally administering medications or other interventions to cause patient's death when patient was competent but without the patient's explicit request and/or fully informed consent. Nonvoluntary active euthanasia is the intentionally administering medication or other interventions to cause patient's death when patient was incompetent or not able to explicitly requesting it. Terminating life-sustaining treatments is withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining medical treatments from the patient to let him or her die. Palliative care or indirect euthanasia is administering narcotics or other medications to relieve pain with incidental consequence of causing sufficient respiratory depression to result in the patient's death. Physician-assisted suicide is a physician providing medication or other interventions to a patient with the understanding that the patient intends to use them to commit suicide."
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Maybe animal experimentation? If you want a source for some information on the topics you mentioned (and a few more), take a look at http://www.balancedpolitics.org/. It'll discuss the pros and cons of each issue.\n\nGood luck with that.
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I am completely for assisted suicide for the terminally ill.  If someone is so sick that thier quality of life is so bad that death is a release, so be it!  If suicide is used as a political statement ( such as hunger strikes and monks setting themselves on fire) I find that equally acceptable even rightious.  But if someone is going to kill themselves because they can't pay thier bills, or they are unhappy in thier marriage, I think that is cowardly... these are things that can be changed, declare bankruptcy, get a divorce... dont kill yourself!  If you are depressed, see a specialist, there are plenty of mood moderating meds available!
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I don't know if it should be considered a "right". I think each case should be determined on its own merit. Some say they are against, some say they are for it. Who is right? If a person is terminally ill, in incredible pain, why shouldn't they be able to make a decision to have a doctor assisted suicide? They are many who agree that the death penalty is moral, so why shouldn't the right to die be considered to be moral. Some places consider execution and abortion to be legal, each in each instance the taking of a life. Yet they have a problem with assisted suicide.
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pros - life experience\n\ncons - difficulty in getting job
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Go to yahoo.com and try searching using key terms such as: pro death penalty, pro capital punishment.  Below are a couple of sites I came up with.
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authanasia is legalized in \nAustralia \nBelgium \nThe Netherlands \nOregon (United States)\n\nHowever, there are two types of euthanasia - active and passive. 1. Active Euthanasia: a positive action is taken to bring about someone’s death e.g. the administering of a deadly injection or the assisting in preparations for a suicide\n2. Passive Euthanasia involves a refusal to intervene to change the course of events, where the result is the death of the person.\n\nAll of these countries support Assisted Euthanasia -\na second party (usually a physician) participates in bringing about the patient’s death, but is not the sole cause of the death. \n\nNetherland for example allows permits physician assisted dying when each of the following conditions is fulfilled:\nthe patient's suffering is unbearable with no prospect of improvement \nthe patient's request for euthanasia must be voluntary and persist over time (The request can not be granded when under the influence of others, psychological illness or drugs) \nthe patient must be fully aware of his/her condition, prospects and options \nthere must be consultation with at least one other independent docter who needs to confirm the conditions mentioned above \nthe death must be carried out in a medically appropriate fashion by the doctor or patient, in which case the doctor must be present. \nthe patient is at least 12 years old (patients between 12 and 16 years of age require the consent of their parents)\n\nthese laws are different in each of these countries.
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I'd address three topics:\n\n1.Is it justified (eg. eye for an eye, revenge Vs rehabilitation, rights of the victim and their family, risk of miscarriage etc)\n2.Is it effective (eg. is it a deterent, does it make better societies, is it cheaper than permanent incarceration etc)\n3.Is it legal (eg. is it a cruel and unusual punishment, the position of international law, etc)\n\nYou've probably been asked the US/UK part because we are fairly similar societies with a largely common ancestry\nand tradition, but the UK abolished the death penalty whilst much of the US still uses it.  You can go two ways on this - \n1. the US is a much younger society still in a vigourous development phase facing the challenges of it's huge size and diversity so frontier justice is still appropriate (similar claims for China by the way, the other big executor).  when the UK was trying to hold a huge empire together it executed loads of people too.\n2. the existence in the US of a more fundemental christianity gives people a different perspective on life (and death) from the broadly humanist (post christian) views in Europe (including the UK) where morality is more personal and less something learned from religion.  Religious Europe was a very bloody place indeed for hundreds of years.\n\nHope this helps, BTW my opinion is that it is as morally justifiable as war.  I really don't want to have to do it, but sometimes I might have to protect my family and society.  Right now I think both our societies could live without capital punishment, and therefore should - but that could change.
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I am currently a practicing Physician Assistant and in my first year of school this question was posed to my entire class.  We spent 45 minutes debating it as a class with out professor looking on (and keeping some calm.)  After we finished, he told us the "accpeted" medical position that he found in his practice as a PA-C.  First, as someone else stated, euthanasia is illegal in all states except Oregon (however, I will admit that I do not know the laws of other countries).  What we were told is that if doing certain proceudres or writing certain prescriptions violates our belief system, we are under no obligation to our patient's to perform or prescribe these things.  BUT what we do owe to our patients is to provide them with someone who will help them.  Our role as a health care provider is to help our patients, not to preach our beliefs unto them.  I went to a Catholic university where we were "not supposed" to be taught about abortion and birth control, but of course that is a part of medicine and we need to learn about it for the safety of our patients.  As a side note, if you are uncomfortable prescribing birth control medications and performing abortions, but are interested in OB/GYN then I would recommend working in a Catholic hospital/health system as they follow the Catholic beliefs and cannot prescribe or perform them (unless the mother is in danger).  However, they do speak to their patients about the option of birth control medications (and other practices) as they are health care providers providing patient education, which is an important part of being a health care provider.
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You do know what euthanasia is,.. right?  It is mercy killing.\n\nThere is no age limit, but in order for this to happen without much difficulty one has to have a living will.\n\nDr. Kavorkian went to prison because he was prccticing it.\n\nHope this helps\n\nGood luck
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No. \nHowever, I think that everyone should have a living will and advance directives in cases something happens to them that leaves them incapable of making life or death decisions.\nI am also for assisted suicide under certain circumstances such as terminal illness that there is no chance of survival and the person would be in pain and suffering for God knows how long.
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I would not want anyone to give their life up for me.\nI would die and give my life up for the people i love, most impotantly my children. I think their life is worth dying for. I"m not saying mine isn't because i'm sure to my family it is. I'd rather not have someone lose their life for me.\nI think Life is worth dying for, if you love your life. If you don't love it then you usually don't care or think you have anything to lose.
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euthanasia or mercy killing is done when someone has cancer or a killing disease or perhaps coma so to rid them of the pain they r killed with medication
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Pro-reduce overpopulation\nCon-It is morally wrong in the eyes of God