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Assisted Suicide and the Nursing Profession

Physicians occupy center stage in this modern-day morality play and remain the central focus of most analytical investigations. P...

ASSISTED SUICIDE AND ARTIFICIAL CONCEPTION: A CHRISTIAN VIEWPOINT

Outlines Christian viewpoints toward artificial conception and euthanasia/assisted suicide. There are 6 sources listed in the bibl...

Australia and Euthansia

In five pages euthanasia is examined regarding its Australian legal status with a discussion of a nonprosecuted 'assisted death' c...

Euthanasia Ethics and Law in Australia

In a paper consisting of five pages the laws regarding euthanasia particularly as they pertain to the Northern Territory passage o...

Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia

In seven pages physician assisted suicide and euthanasia are examined in a consideration their history and related issues with dif...

Sustaining Life or Death by Assisted Suicide

quality of life, the patient must be in such a frame of mind and body where life is a pleasure and not merely a perpetual struggle...

llegality of Assisted Suicide in Regards to the 14th Amendment

This 5 page paper provides an overview of a case where physicians were sued for assisting terminal patients with suicide and were ...

Euthanasia

i.e., death. While euthanasia does not allow people to avoid the "cause of our fear-death-it does allow us to control its manner, ...

Legal and Ethical Views on Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia

a patients life so that the individuals life reaches its natural conclusion without any intervention measures to prolong suffering...

Assisted Suicide and Cruzan v. Harmon

Legal responsibility, government boundaries, and the Cruzan v. Harmon Supreme Court decision on legalizing physician assisted suic...

Right to Die Issues of Public Policy

In eight pages this paper considers 'right to die' issues of public policy and includes group and elite theories as well as increm...

A Euthanasia Discussion

The pros and cons of assisted suicide and euthanasia are considered using the case studies of Oregon's 'Death With Dignity Act' an...

The Case for Legal Assisted Suicide

that people have the right to make their own choices. One author asks in regard to the prolonging of human life: "Why is that be...

Oregon Law and Euthanasia

problems arise when the individual is physically unable to bring about their own demise and requires the assistance of someone els...

Dr. Jack Kevorkian's Role in Physician Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia

on this journey is Michael Betzold, author of Appointment With Dr. Death, in which he rivets our attention to Dr. Kevorkian as he ...

Ethical Applications and Euthanasia

In four pages applied ethics are examined within the context of euthanasia in a consideration of the essays 'The Survival Lottery'...

Cultural Variatioins on Death and Dying

death. For some families extreme suffering is something to be avoided even if it means that they resort to extreme measures such ...

Euthanasia or PAS

himself, without mischief reaching at least to his near connexions, and often far beyond them"(Mills,9). John Stuart Mill seemed ...

Debate on Euthanasia Legalization

often, years of pain, suffering and despair (Paris, 1997). Patients like Karen Ann Quinlan were trapped by technology that could w...

Theological views on Euthanasia

In five pages theological views on euthanasia and assisted suicide are examined in a conclusion that religion and not law should e...

Euthanasia Controversy

1997, p. 4) in any persons life. To be sure, this is one of the "most compelling arguments" (Kowalski, 1996, p. 45) that supports...

EUTHANASIA/ASSISTED SUICIDE FROM A CHRISTIAN POINT OF VIEW

Provides a look at at euthanasia and assisted suicide from a Christian point of view. There are 6 sources in the bibliography of t...

Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: The Legal and Ethical Dimensions

or another, enter into ethical quandaries as a result of their regular operations. This is because virtually all organizational ac...

PAS and Ethics

Granted, the pain may subside temporarily, but the patient realizes that the relief does not lead to a permanent remission; rather...

Against Euthanasia

in the last months of his life than he had been previously, and that was something he would have denied them, and himself, had the...

Social Responsibility, Terminally Ill Citizens, and Euthanasia

In five pages euthanasia is explored in terms of history, types, and issues of economics, living wills, and human rights....

Suicide and Patients with AIDS and HIV

not to endure that process or cause their loved ones to have to experience it with them. The impact of the loss of personal autono...

Young Victims of Suicide and Depression

and adolescents (Mahler, 2005). Of every twenty children, in fact, one has struggled with severe depression at one point or anoth...

Assisted Suicide Arguments Both For and Against

same right to humans devaluing human life to a level lower than that if animals. Whereas those against assisted suicide argue that...

Terminally Ill Assistance and Euthanasia

a matter that is automatically seen as euthanasia. If we consider the case of Diane Petty we may see why it was that she sought t...