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Euthanasia - Example Papers

Euthanasia

Public opinion for and doctor assisted suicide has always
been mixed. A poll that was taken by the Gallup Organization in Canada
during July 1995 proves that people are starting to see the advantages of
. The first question that was asked was:

"When a person has an incurable disease that is immediately life
threatening and causes that person to experience great suffering, do you,
or do you not think that competent doctors should be allowed by law to end
the patient's life through mercy killing, if the patient has made a
formal request in writing?"

It is proven in this first question that the general public believes that
cases of great pain and suffering deserve the right to ...

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has made a formal request in writing?"

As you can see, when a case is not immediately life threatening, the
general publics answer is mixed. The people who answered no may be thinking
of treatment that has not been tried yet or treatment that may come in the
future due to new technologies. Medical Advancements: During the last 20
years, technological advancement has increased more than the advancement of
the whole time of man before that. People that have the no opinion on
euthanasia may be thinking that the person may be saved by a sudden medical
advancement. It would be terrible for a member of your family to take a
lethal dose of drugs, given to them by a doctor, to find the next day while
reading a recent medical journal that a cure had been found a few days
before. How would you ...

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Added: 1/15/2006 01:26:48 AM
Category: Health & Medicine
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