Cancer deaths in California

for the Death with Dignity Act to be passed. The act would allow adults, who were terminally ill, to die within 6 months and get the lethal medicine from their doctor. This would allow the patient, who knows their disease will kill them, to die peacefully. They could ask their doctor to help them with assisted suicide. An example of an assisted suicide would be a 29 year-old…

Maynard Brittany Maynard was a young girl diagnoses with a terminal illness. She was only 29 when she was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. She quickly gained national attention when she decided to end her life. She was both supported and criticize for her decision to choose to take her own life by lethal self medication approved by the Death with Dignity Act. The Death with Dignity Act is a law that has been established to allows cognitive terminally-ill adult patients to end their lives.…

edically assisted death is a debate that our nation has been struggling with for many decades. It presents many concerns among Americans, and people throughout the world. It is a very controversial topic; as you need to look at religion, finances, ethics, history, and politics. The United States is still trying to reach a solid conclusion in forty-five states. The first state to legalize medically assisted death was Oregon in 1997. Ever since then, four other states: Montana, California,…

states that legally allow a person of a terminal illness to have a physician assisted death are Oregon, Vermont and Washington. If passed, the End of Life Option Act, modeled after the Death with Dignity Act of Oregon, would give the people of California who have been deemed terminally ill the right to a physician assisted death. In order for those to gather the most quality from life, physician assisted death should be legalized. The idea of the End of Life Option Act…

have passed in more states. We both mentioned remembering from 2014 when a girl named Brittany Maynard shared her story of having inoperable brain cancer. It was on the news a few times and was even on the Today show. She lived in California (where physician-assisted suicide is illegal) and had to move to Oregon (where it is legal) so she could choose "Death with Dignity". Whenever it was on the news or in an article we would both read…

increase the quality of life the patient has. People who oppose too this treatment should have empathy for those families and patients with these conditions. Advocates argue that marijuana can be a safe and effective treatment for patients who have cancer and other conditions like AIDs and Multiple Sclerosis. On the contrary, opponents might argue that it might lead to addiction and affect different parts of the body. Although, marijuana might have some contradictions, it saves lives, and has…

has been a controversial topic for ages asking all kinds of questions about how it effects anything and everything. Did you know out of the 50 states in the United States only 23 states are legalized for medical marijuana? It all started in 1996. California was the first state to be legalized for medical marijuana. There was one man responsible for having the drive to push for legalizing marijuana…

Lincoln Truong died peacefully in May 2014 in the comfort of his own home with his mother beside him, watching him take his last breath. Lincoln was born in 1982 in Vietnam. His family boarded a plane to California with his parents and older sister. He was seven years old. He attended school at Robert Louis Stevenson Elementary School. He was a socially awkward child and was very lonely and secluded. He had a hard time making friends because of the large language barrier. Also, he was a very…

Everyone knows about Breast cancer these days, due to the fact that every day we have seen lots of organizations working for this sole purpose. Every now and then we meet or hear someone struggling with this devastating type of cancer which is more prevalent in women. According to the recent facts and figures from American Cancer Society about the number of deaths from breast cancer in US in 2013, among all ages has gone up to 39,620. This seems like a huge number, but if we look at the…

Most of the time, when you hear about a shark attack, it doesn't have a happy ending. But for a Fitchburg, Massachusetts local, it was the complete opposite. Eugene Finney was enjoying a family vacation in Huntington Beach, California when he decided to go for a swim. After a few minutes, he was struck something that jarred him so much it gave him "instant whiplash." He struggled out of the water. “Something struck me from behind. I’d never been hit like that before. It was pretty jarring," he…