...prevent a patient from dying if the patient has a terminal disease; all he/she can do is wait for death to arrive. This waiting time can be very painful for both the patients and the people who surround them. Not practicing euthanasia at the request of the dying person is violating a person’s rights, creating an economic burden, interfering with a doctor’s job, and increasing suffering. First of all, deciding if you want to be alive or not is a personal decision. Neither the doctors nor the government has the power to decide if you should live or not. Since it is not their life and they are not in your situation, they cannot make that kind of decision for you. It might sound like suicide, but again, that is our problem, not theirs. They give us the liberty to decide our job, our family, our religion, and even our sex preference. Why should they not give us the right to decide if we want to live or not? That should be the first right before all the ones I have mentioned. It is not logical that we can choose in all those other decisions if we cannot first choose to live or die. The photo is the "Sleeping Angel" carved from a solid block of marble located at Highgate Cemetery in Islington outside London. The Sleeping Angel is Mary Nichols who died in 1909 of diabetes and heart failure. She was the wife of Arthur Nichols. An internet search for "Sleeping Angel" and "Highgate...
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...Why is it important to vote? voting is more important than the bullet. I think that is a really strong quote and i really like it because it has a sequences like jail or they could take you to court . That is why it is important to vote be cause we have a right to. “The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”-Abraham Lincoln. This quote means One of the reasons not to vote is some presidents are for bad stuff. One president was voting for abortion. And other bad stuff like really really bad stuff. But I personally like voting. Well kinda. Sometimes. The reason you should is because it is a honer. Some people don’t take it as a honer. But i do but i am not saying it you shouldn’t vote i think we should. Everybody...
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...how and when they would like to die, if they were terminally ill. Until people start speaking up about their wishes about how and when they want to die, they will continue to slowly fade away and be in pain during that process. There really needs to be someone to step up and finish where Dr. Kevorkian was forced to stop helping people. There are hundreds, if not thousands of people that die every single day, and those people end up suffering because there is nothing, except conventional pain medications, that ease their pain while dying. While these pain medications do help sometimes, people are still suffering, waiting, and dying a slow death. This is why doctor assisted suicide/euthanasia should be legalized because at the end of their lives, most people do not want to suffer. Shouldn't we be Able to Choose how and When to Die? Have you ever thought about the way you would want to die if you were terminally ill? Most people do not think about things like that. However, if you could actually choose how and when you wanted to die, what choice would you make? If you had a terminal illness and knew that you were going to die very soon, would you want your family to watch you be in pain, listen to you yell or moan from that pain and slowly die? If you could have a way to die, that would keep you from suffering, and to keep your family from watching you go through the slow process of dying, would you do it? Like most people, you would and would want to go to sleep and not wake up...
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...for the next few minitues I want to talk to you about the situations that are in your life. In order to deal with the situations that we are going to have to face in this world, we must learn how to deal with some situations in your life and allow them to die. We all go and are going through things that seems to hard for us to bear. There are many things that we have been praying for and we wonder Lord are you listening to me? Some of us been praying the same prayer so long that we feel like maybe this is one He just isn’t going to answer. I stop by to let you know that He hears every prayer and it is how you are dealing with the situation that is affecting the answer. Don’t you realize that He told us that we have the power to speak things into exsistance. Take not that on the 3 P’s. P= I have taught you in my word how to first Pray P= I have given you the Power to speak over your situation P= Then after you have pray and authorized your power to speak, then you have to learn to leave it alone and Praise for the result. Some of us don’t want our situations to die. We get all the attention as long as we are going through. If the Lord make a way for my bills to be paid, I can’t hit up the mission department no more. If he heal me, then the mothers want come over and cook and clean for me no more You don’t want your situation to die because that is the only way your lazy self have learned how to survive. TELL YOUR NEIGHBOR LET IT DIE AND GROW UP! Saints be honest...
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...Up the Ghost You only live once but if you do it right, once is enough. The thing is we mess it up most of the time. People who are fortunate to be born in a well-off family end up spending all their wealth and end up miserable. People who were born miserable die miserable. Life is full of struggles, pain, and misery that I ask myself, why do people still want to live in this world? I mean, seeing all these tragedies, why would they still want to endure all this pain? I came up with one solution on how to stop these troubles, suicide. There are, of course, a lot of ways to die. But I will show you the best ways to die that even at the very last moment, you can catch a glimpse of happiness. Included on the list is to have an honorable death, to be a hero! Defending your friends from the massive zombie invasion will gain you awesomeness and respect. Although your survival chances are minimum, the feeling of being the last stand is great. But the best part of it is after you die, you become immortal! Isn’t that amazing? You are going to live again without any problems your past life did give you. This is surely and epic way to die. If you don’t want to die painful deaths, there are painless ways to die. You just have to gather every medicine tablet you could find and medicate yourself with it. An antibiotic would be the best supplement for this. Just think that after taking all these medicines, we will be immune to all kinds of diseases due to the effect of every tablet...
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...Does one who kills another deserve to die? Does One Who Kills Another Deserve to Die? “Don’t get mad, get even” It’s a common rule in a heartless society. But is it right? Thomas Hobbes stated that human beings are fearful of and hostile to one another, they resent the least detriment to themselves; to their bodies, their property, their liberty or opportunities, their pride or their reputation”. (Lisa H. Newton 2004 p. 59) Under certain circumstances there are reasons why one who kills another deserves to die and there are reasons why they don’t deserve to die. There are many different philosophic views on this topic. For example; a subject that brings much debate, should an insane person that kills be killed? Retributivists say that “since he did not know what he was doing, he did not intend the crime, does not deserve to be punished” (Lisa H. Newton 2004 pg. 61. Circumstances in which a killer would deserve to die | Circumstances in which a killer would not deserve to die | * Killing someone out of hate; simply saying I just want them to be dead * Jealousy; can’t control yourself so decide to murder. It can be attention seekers, wives, husbands etc. * Money * Breaking up, divorce; For example: John Barnes stabbed his wife because she broke off their engagement. * Rapists * Pedophiles * child murderers * serial killers * racism | * Standing up for his own country; army * Psychological issues * “Accidently” ex; hitting someone with a car, a sober...
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...from suffering. I. INTRODUCTION A. Attention getter : Imagine yourself being unable to walk, unable to see, and can barely breathe let alone speak. Your life was well lived all those years before. You are in such unbearable pain that you can’t even cry. Although your family is there for your every step of the way you begin to think, could ending your life be the answer to the pain? You are in more pain than you can bear. There is no way that you could function without assistance. You think and feel as if your life has no meaning. Well in all reality this isn’t something anyone needs to imagine. This is a real situation for many, many people. These people should be able to make their own choices and have control of their own lives. B. Background information of the topic: Euthanasia is a term still new to many of us. It is a Greek term meaning ‘good death’. It means self imposed death in a relatively painless and merciful way. Euthanasia is categorized in different ways, which include voluntary, non-voluntary, or involuntary and active or passive. Euthanasia is usually used to refer to active euthanasia, and in this sense, euthanasia is usually considered to be criminal homicide, but voluntary, passive euthanasia is widely non-criminal. C. Preview of the speech (central idea): Now let's take a look at the reasons on why euthanasia should be legalized. Euthanasia is about giving people the right to choose how they want to live and die, saves money in medical...
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...let die. Specific purpose : To persuade my audience that euthanasia should be legalized in Malaysia. Central idea : Euthanasia is about giving people the right to choose how they want to live and die, saves money in medical bills, and it also stops the person from having a bad quality of life. INTRODUCTION Attention getter : Imagine yourself being unable to walk, unable to see, and can barely breathe let alone speak. Your life was well lived all those years before. You are now in such unbearable pain that you can’t even cry. You can no longer complete simple tasks on your own and there is no way that you could function without assistance. You think and feel as if your life has no meaning. Although your family is there to support you, you wonder could ending your life be the answer? Well in all reality this isn’t something anyone needs to imagine. This is a real situation for many, many people. These people should be able to make their own choices and have control of their own lives. Thesis What’s life without the quality of life? Now let's take a look and examine 3 reasons why Physician Assistant suicide should be legalized. PAS is about giving people the right to choose how they want to live and die, saves money in medical bills, and it also stops the person from having a bad quality of life. Transition to body of speech : BODY A. Main-point 1: Everyone has the right to choose how they want to live and die. i. Supporting...
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...voluntarily wants to end their lives due to an incurable disease. They decide whether or not it is worth the suffering they have to go through everyday, or they can stick it out until they pass. It is an ongoing debate in the United States, to whether this should be legal or illegal. If it is inhumane or humane. It never stops, people are always going to give their own opinions on this. As many issues on this come from family members, doctors, to nurses. It all determines whether or not their family respects that person’s wishes or not. This can lead to overwhelming stress for that patient, because...
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...The Right to Die There has been much debate in Canada about whether or not we should have physician assisted suicide. I believe that a person has the right to die with dignity if they are in severe pain and have no hope of recovering. As long as a person is mentally intact, they should be able to make their own decision. But if the person is on life support and there is no brain activity and little or no hope; their family should make the decision. The doctor should consult but does not and should never make the decision. Therefore the doctors will not be called ‘murders’ or ‘inhumane’. When a person is terminally ill, and they're going to die, why make them suffer any longer. With assisted suicide the patient would be able to be surrounded by loved ones and go out the way they want to, not the way they are forced to. I believe a person should be able to choose whether or not they want to continue through the pain or come to terms with the fact they'll die and be ready for it. Why would an animal that is sick and dying get a needle and feel no more pain. But a human who is sick and dying has to die a painful death; suffering from their sickness. The law already permits patients to withhold or withdraw medical treatment even if that increases the chances that the patient will die. I fail to see much difference between physicians not giving patients medicine and physicians assisting suicide. There are various opinions regarding this debate. Most are based on religious...
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...terminal patient die in a natural way. It means that the doctor will not interfere by giving the patient any kind drug. The patients request the doctor to stop the treatment that is keeping them alive. The author of our text book gives us a few arguments in pro to passive euthanasia. First, the individual rights over bodies and lives, it means that all human being have the freedom to do whatever they want with their lives. Individuals have the right to do whatever they think if better for them. They can get tattoos; they can pierce parts of their body that even God would not believe; they can jump out of a roof when they are depressed, so why not ask for a doctor pull the cord? The second argument is shortening the period of suffering, is this case a terminal patient with no quality of life should not suffer any longer. The doctors and the family should let the patient go if they know that is no chance of recovery. They have to understand that prolonging this patient’s life will just bring them more pain and suffer. The health care professionals and the families should make decisions based on the patient’s best interest. Last but not least the patients’ right to die with dignity, it means that human being have the right of dying distinction. The doctors have to respect the patient’s decision of not to deteriorate on a bed waiting for death to take his life away. A terminal patient wishes not quality of life but quality of death. So, why not give it to him? I believe that they...
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...Assisted Suicide Suffering from an illness that is terminal can last weeks, months and even years, or it can take one massive decision on taking yourself away from the pain with assisted suicide. Assisted suicide is when a patient that is terminally ill, and qualifies for the procedure, asks for medication to take their own life to stop the pain. In the United Sates, forty six states do not give the option for assisted suicide, which means there are millions of people suffering from incurable illnesses, waiting to die. Many people try killing themselves on their own, because they are not a citizen of a state that allows assisted suicide. I believe that killing yourself unassisted is worse than killing yourself with provided medication. Assisted suicide should be legal, because it allows suffering people to decide when they want to overcome the pain. Assisted suicide is not like any ordinary suicide. It is a suicide to relieve pain from a patient who only has so long to live. To receive assisted suicide, the patient has to qualify to all of the requirements. Out of the four states that have legalized assisted suicide, three of them involve the same requirements. Oregon was the first state to legalize assisted suicide on November 8, 1994. “An adult who is capable of making choices, is a resident of Oregon, and has been determined by the attending physician and consulting physician to be suffering from a terminal disease, and who had voluntarily expressed his or her life in...
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...way for reasons of mercy”. (Unknown, 2012) Euthanasia ends the individuals’ life by either lethal injection or the suspension of medical treatment. Euthanasia is not legalized in many places. When it comes to the debate of Euthanasia, there are more arguments on why it should be legalized than why it should stay illegal. There’s no doubt about it that constant medical bills are beyond expensive. The cost of the accessories, medicines, and machines that are needed to keep an individual alive are pricey. In 2009 an article said that 60% of people who go bankrupt are troubled by medical bills. (Tamkins, 2009) In 2007 another article explains that 72 million working-age Americans are paying off medical debt or have medical bill problems. If the number of elderly adults that deal with the same issues are included, then the total rises to 79 million. (Gonzalez, 2012) Years of everlasting medical bills and useless treatments will leave debt to the patient, family, and loved ones. That is money no one cannot afford to lose. There is no need to pay to perpetuate a life of a patient that has no chance of getting better and or living a regular life again. There is no need to pay to prolong a life of a patient that wants to die. There is no need in paying a colossal amount of money every day to suffer. Euthanasia is the solution yet again. Euthanasia will diminish the constant bills. Euthanasia will free the medical funds. Death is one of the hardest things humans have to deal with....
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...adventure because I will get to see the whole meaning right in front of my eyes. I will learn that the meaning to life had to do with the relationships I made with people and how I treated them along the journey. Saint Peter will judge us at the gates of heaven and we will see our life pass before us. Death will come as a surprise to most, which makes it hard to deal with. But for some, people will know when they are going to die which will make it easier to handle because they can say their goodbyes to everyone before the person who is going to die takes their final breathe of life. Death is going to be hard for me to comprehend with because I hate the fact that I am going to have to leave this life behind me. I live such a good life, and when it comes done to judgment time, I really want to get into heaven. I will look back on my life and hopefully be satisfied when I take that final breathe and keep my eyes open for the final time. I want to be able to do things that I have always wanted to do, like travel the world and make a family. I don't want to live a meaningless life that was no final answer in the end. That's why we die, because each one of our lives is going to have a final answer in the end that tells us why we were set on this earth in the first place. I do not want death to hurt because I don't believe that pain should be inflicted on any human being in the world. As long as death isn't painful for me I believe that it will be ok for me. I want to live a long life...
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...One of the things that can prove that you existed in the first place is death for all lives are bound to die. Time is inevitable and each second that passes by is one step closer to death. Just the same, every moment we live is the reality and every moment that passes by becomes part of the forgettable past. We do not own time but on the contrary, time owns us. Schopenhauer would argue that life is pointless, a meaningless journey with one final end which is to cease to exist. What would then be the ultimate purpose of life if we will all die in the end? Everything that we invested will be gone and everything we have built will be worthless? I would like to argue that it is not necessarily the end that matters the most but the journey. Dying in the end should not mean that we have to live our lives miserably. I believe that death and factitious freedom are deeply intertwined with the thesis question "Why did Jesus die on the cross?" In this paper, we carefully examine not just the father-son relationship between Jesus and God but Jesus as both God-Man through the hypostatic union (As given in the thesis question) , its relationship to people and the very purpose of His and generally an individual's death vis-a-vis human freedom. It is very difficult to try to elaborate this issue that has been going on for years without being theological. There is a gap between theology and philosophy in such a way that theology's main ingredients are faith and belief and philosophy is sheer...
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