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    Physician-Assisted Suicide Introduction Assisted suicide has been a debated topic for many decades now. Oregon was the first state in the union to allow for a physician to write a lethal prescription to end a terminally ill patients life (Volker, 2007). Since that time four other states have followed suite with similar or their own versions of legislation that allows for this type of act. Outside the United States, seven countries allow for some level of physician-assisted suicide. Most of…

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    When it comes to crime scene investigation, a thorough preliminary investigation is usually required, the reason being to end up with a follow-up investigation. Preliminary investigations seldom provide a sufficient amount of information to arraign a criminal case, consequently the necessity of a thorough preliminary investigation is imperative. Crime scene investigators apprehend that in order to continue with their investigation and to legitimately prosecute a criminal case, evidence that is…

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    Throughout my life I have really only experienced three close family deaths. The first family death that I experienced was my great grandmother. I was only ten years old when she passed away, so it was all very strange to me. It was the first family funeral that I had to attend and I do not think I fully understood it. The one thing I remember most about her death is the day she died in the hospital. My parents and I had gone to the hospital to visit her because the doctors had called and…

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    refuse or discontinue medical care. They are similar in the simple fact that a doctor has the obligation to save someone’s life, but the patients does not allow the doctor to do his job and both result in death. It is not right to allow someone to refuse treatment and to die an excruciating death when they can legally die a hastened one at their choice. This might appear to be a punishment to someone who is offered help. However, what if there was no help and you were bound to die at some point,…

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    because they often had no value for individual lives (Introduction). With this notion, abortions were common; along with both voluntary and involuntary mercy killings. Like any issues that deal with death, there were also ancient Greeks and Romans who did not support the idea of a physician-assisted death (Introduction). Some individuals thought that suicide was cowardly (Introduction). Fast-forward thousands of years later and the debate still rages on. Only this time,…

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    Suffering, unimaginable pain, and the loss of meaning in life are all fears that people face when thinking about their eventual deaths. However, these fears can be dismissed by the practice of physician-assisted suicide. This practical and ethical procedure is a safe and humane way to help those with terminal illnesses die on their own terms without causing more damage to not only themselves but to their family as well. While physician-assisted suicide is frowned upon by many moral crusaders,…

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    Brought to Jerry Brown attention the about approving the very controversial suicide bill that has passed recently. Which gives a person who is terminally ill the right to die painlessly, and Brown has yet to come to state his opinion on the matter. But what gives a person the right to choose if they want to end their life. On many level this bill is very disturbing to some out there, but in what way will this Suicide Bill solve anything, when we are trying to prevent the suicide from occurring…

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    “20 One Again” which is a comedy with regain youth film, which talks about a 70 years old woman suddenly becomes 20 years lady again. This film describes the old woman’s life story with her family, love relationship, cultural, and generation gap that to recalls elderly numerous worries and regret with their pass. There are a lot of life experiences which are aging, family relationship and life change. The 70 years old old woman who like sarcastic with people, so that almost nobody like to…

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    Dealing with death it impacts my emotions in the following three ways: Grief, Anger and Depression. Grief is the state of emotional feelings that I went through after the death of my mother. In 1987, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer and the doctors only gave her 6 to 18 months to live. When she told me, I was so devastated I just didn’t know what to do. During those months I was grieving before she died because I just didn’t know what to do. I did everything in my heart begging my…

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    Physician Assisted Suicide Should Be Legalized Two thirds of out of 703 people believe if a patient is in a lot of pain, they should get the option of PAS (physician assisted suicide.) The diseases people have could threaten their lives, they could be on their deathbed with days to live. If someone knows they are dying and they are in extreme pain, they should get the choice to be killed by the physician if that is what they really want. Many people wonder when this really started…

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