Assisted Suicide

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is suffering with an illness that will only get worse. "In China and
some parts of India, it is an ancient custom to drown newborn girls if they
think they will live a useless life."
The Dutch believe in the act of assisted suicide as many other religions.
They believe that it is easier to end a life so the family and the other people
will not have to go through all the suffering and pain.
Many Physicians today believe that assisted suicide is the answer to end
all the pain and suffering in the world. Dr. Peter Admirral is a physician that
is known for ending more than one hundred lives in less than thirty years. "The
emotion is what you prescribed or what you have injected will cause the patient
to die. Its so opposite to normal feelings of a doctor that you have to go
through a period of resisting this. Although you must remember the patient is
you friend."
Another Physician that is highly noted for assisted suicide is Dr. Jack
Kevorkian. He believes that he is a ...

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her on the bed.
About an hour later, her friends went upstairs and checked on her, they then
found out that she was in a coma and they could not wake her. They called a
ambulance immediately."
After the ambulance made back to the hospital, Karen Quinland went into
breathing deficiency. Karen's doctor got the parents consent to put her on a
respirator. After a couple of days on the respirator, Karen's mom decided that
Karen would probably want to end her life and would not want to suffer any more.
According to the law, taking her off of the respirator would be an act of
assisted suicide. The person whom does this would face accounts of murder and
would likely be put in prison ...

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