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A common ethical dilemma in today’s society is whether or not to allow physician-assisted suicide. It can be easy to decide that physician-assisted suicide should not be allowed. On the surface, physician-assisted suicide has characteristics that can be hard to see as different from legal concepts like abetting or even committing a murder. Like many…

With the development of medical science and technology, medicine can prolong individual lives, but also prolong the suffering of patients at the end of life. Before the middle of the 20th century, on account of the low level of medical technology, when people were attacked by a fatal disease, death would come soon. Nowadays, many…

The right to assisted suicide is an important topic that concerns people all over the United States. Dating all the way back to ancient Greek times, the most historical figure in western culture ever to live, died by assisted suicide. Socrates ended his life by ingesting poison. He believed that death may be the greatest…

Introduction Life is a divine gift from God. The Creator gave a life that needs to be taken care and one day, God will take it away. He is the only one, the Almighty, has the right to end one’s life and no other human being has the right to end it. This statement has…

The arguments on physician assisted suicide (PAS) have been debated for years. PAS is medically defined as the voluntary termination of one’s own life by administration of a lethal substance with the direct or indirect assistance of a physician. This term is commonly confused with Euthanasia, which is the painless killing of a person suffering…

Euthanasia is also known as assisted suicide. There are two types of euthanasia, involuntary and voluntary euthanasia. People feel that performing euthanasia is horrible and is inhumane. Other people see it as taking pain that the person has away and stop them from struggling. Assisted suicide should be allowed under certain circumstances such as having…

Physician Assisted Suicide is a controversial aspect of nursing due to its moral and ethical beliefs of those it affects. Physician assisted suicide is when a terminally ill patient gets the assistance of a physician to aid them at a point in their illness when their life is nearing an end, to have a comfortable…

Did you know that over 1.5 million animals in shelters are being euthanized each year? According to the ASPCA this was a dramatic drop since 2011. In 2011, over 2 million animals had to be euthanized. Horses are being smuggled across American borders in to delicacies. There is illegal puppy mills been ran all across…