name the countries that euthanasia is legal in PLEASE?
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Belgium and The Netherlands for sure.
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Try the UK, USA, or Ireland
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i agree!!\n\nEuthanasia (Greek: ευθανασία - ευ "good", θανατος "death") refers to assisted dying. The assistance ends the life of a person or an animal, in a painless or minimally painful way. Euthanasia is most often performed in a merciful way, in order to end suffering. This article discusses euthanasia in humans; a separate article covers animal euthanasia.\n\nThis topic is often highly-charged—emotionally, politically, and morally. Terminology and laws shift over time and geographically and globally, causing a great deal of confusion.\n\nFirstly there is some debate as to whether euthanasia refers to "letting die" or "allowing to die." (See terms: informed consent, decisional capacity, surrogate decision making, Living wills, Do Not Resuscitate) In the United States and the Netherlands, "letting die" or "allowing to die" refer to areas which the state consider ethically and legally acceptable and permissible. This includes the withholding and withdrawing of medical treatment such as dialysis or feeding tubes or hydration and nutrition. The last two being things which are associated with "love and caring" in most cultures. While the concept of holding off on those two things may be counterintuitive, as a body's major organ systems try to shut down, a dying person often feels most comfortable without any fluids or food. To do otherwise is like "force feeding" a body that does not "want" or need to be fed or hydrated, and doing so may actually cause physical discomfort and suffering.\n\nIn the UK this is usually only accepted when a newly born baby is born with certain physical or mental disorders.\n\nIn most other countries removing or denying treatment would usually be seen as murder. Usually, because in a growing number of law cases over the last 20 years, the jury has sided with the defendant.\n\nNext are several summary statements defining what euthanasia can include,. These are followed by expanded definitions of each. Euthanasia (assisted dying) may employ methods that are either indirect or direct. Indirect methods of euthanasia are defined by a individual him or herself taking the final step inducing death. Direct methods are defined by the involvement of others (clinicians) who take the final step inducing death. Direct euthanasia can either be voluntary, nonvoluntary or involuntary. (See Karl Binding and Alfred Hoche for one of the first uses of the three types of euthanasia.)\n\nIndirect euthanasia involves the indirect involvement of a clinician (e.g. physician, clinical nurse practitioner, pharmacist) as an agent who participates only by providing the means for a patient to induce his/her own death. This could mean writing or filling a prescription for medications in a quantity large enough to cause death when taken by the patient. This kind of assistance is currently legal in the American state of Oregon. It became legal in 1998 as a result of the "Death with Dignity Act" which was passed in the state in 1994. In politically and emotionally loaded terms, this is frequently referred to as physician-assisted suicide.\n\nDirect euthanasia involves the direct involvement of a clinician as agent in inducing a patient’s death. (e.g. administering a lethal drug by injection.) Direct euthanasia is not currently legal anywhere in the US, but both direct and indirect euthanasia are legal in Belgium and the Netherlands.\n\nVoluntary euthanasia occurs with the fully-informed request of a decisionally-competent adult patient or that of their surrogate (proxy). (Example: Thomas Youk, with ALS was assisted by Jack Kevorkian.)\n\nA large part of the controversy surrounding euthanasia focuses upon the slippery slope argument. The fear is that indirect euthanasia and/or voluntary direct euthanasia will lead to acceptance of the nonvoluntary and involuntary types of euthanasia.\n\nNonvoluntary euthanasia
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Contact "Mediciens sans frontiers" (Doctors without borders) - they might be interested. Then it can really be any place on Earth.\n\nIn most of Western European and North American countries you'll have to reconfirm your diploma.
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my notes from last semester.\n\nno seriously, research "christian democratic welfare state" (spain) and then "liberal welfare state" (sweden/scandinavian countries).\ngood luck!
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Sudan. I'm not sure about the other African countries, but I know for sure that it is legal in Sudan.
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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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Euthanasia is often an ethical choice, so long as it is the choice of the patient without undue pressure.\n\nThere are many aspects of our care system for the ill, disabled and elderly that require reworking to eliminate the undue pressure that might cause a patient to unnecessarily choose euthanasia when they might not otherwise make that choice.\nThese issues need to be addressed, then euthanasia should be legalized.\n\nKevorkian's freedom is problematic. Just choosing to violate the laws of a country cannot be freely sanctioned, and permitted, and he has said that he would continue physician assisted suicides.  He has served to point out the unfairness of our unjustifiable current situation.  Once the laws have been changed perhaps he could be officially pardoned.
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http://web.amnesty.org/pages/deathpenalty-facts-eng
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STATES WITH THE DEATH PENALTY\n \nAlabama\nArizona\nArkansas\nCalifornia\nColorado\nConnecticut\nDelaware\nFlorida\nGeorgia\nIdaho\nIndiana\nIllinois\nKansas *\nKentucky\n Louisiana\nMaryland\nMississippi\nMissouri\nMontana\nNebraska\nNevada\nNew Hampshire\nNew Jersey\nNew Mexico\nNew York *\nNorth Carolina\nOhio\nOklahoma\n Oregon\nPennsylvania\nSouth Carolina\nSouth Dakota\nTennessee\nTexas\nUtah\nVirginia\nWashington\nWyoming
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I believe you will find the information that you are looking for here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countries\n\nGood Luck!!!
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Denmark.\nYou can take drugs legally, marry the same sex - one of the most liberal countries in the world - however, it has one of the toughest migration laws in the world.
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Probably Oregon. Oregon is the only state in which people are not required to perform the fanatical ritual of chronic suffering when death is the only way to end that suffering.
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In Britain we pay for the NHS, so everyone has a right to life. This doesn't really kick in until you see someone collapse in front of your eyes and know that if it wasn't for the NHS they might have to die there.
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That right has always been forfeited, when have we ever legally had the choice to die? Our pets do, but we do not. Its just the law. It doesnt stop anyone from doing it though, so what does it really matter. Love Heidi
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None you need a visa for each of these countries.
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New hampshire and Washington\n\nWashington, the prisoner may request hanging.\nNew Hampshire, if they can not administer lethal injection, then hanging is acceptable.\n\n---\nnote for below, Idaho and oklahoma have firing squad options.