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- 9421: Euthanasia
- ... prognosis, and alternative methods of treatment (though it is not required that the patient be terminally ill). (c) The patient's suffering must be intolerable, in the patient's view, and must also be irreversible. (d) There must be no reasonable alternatives for relieving the patient's suffering that are acceptable to the patient. Procedural Guidelines (e) Euthanasia may be performed only by a physician (though a nurse may assist the ...
- 9422: Euthanasia
- ... rapid and painless termination of life. Patients frequently suffer agony from pain that is uncontrollable. Administration of death is the only effective release from suffering in these situations. If a person is in excruciating pain day and night, or if they are living vegetables in a permanent and unrelenting comatose with no hope for life, shouldn't they be allowed to end their lives legally. In ending the patient's life ...
- 9423: Cleopatra
- ... were treated well. Octavian allowed Cleopatra to arrange Antony's funeral. After the funeral she took to her bed, sick with grief. She wanted to kill herself, but Octavian kept her under close guard. One day he visited her and she flung herself at his feet, nearly naked, and told him she wanted to live. With Octavian's permission she visited Antony's tomb. Then she returned to her mausoleum, took ...
- 9424: Assisted Suicide: An Easier Way Out
- ... suffer a long, painful death. The terminally ill will not get well, they might decide to make the decision of ending their life alone if they cannot receive proper help, and assisted suicides may one day be useful in discovering how the human brain works or perhaps find a cure to some fatal diseases. First, the terminally ill patients will not get better or become cured of the disease they have ...
- 9425: Assisted Suicides
- ... will only progress and worsen with time, and all you can do is wait. What would you do? If you were 42-year-old Judith Curren, a nurse and mother of two small children, you'd be in close contact with the infamous suicide assessor, Dr. Jack Kevorkian, a.k.a. "Doctor Death," discussing your "options." However, according to an editorial published in The Washington Post, entitled "38 Assisted Suicides," many ...
- 9426: Suicide In Jails
- ... the Stephans 9-11 knife which can effectively cut through sheets, bedding, belts, and other material (Winkler 1992). Some other rather interesting statistics have been compiled regarding the jail suicide act in reference to month, day and time in which it is most likely to occur. The majority of inmates commit suicide between the hours of midnight and eight A.M., usually occurring on a Saturday in the month of September ...
- 9427: Colin Powell
- ... said And the good Lord God asked: "Whom shall I send? Who will go for us?" And the reply came back: "Here I am send me.' " ( Source 1, page 161, 162). Powell's first official day as Chairman of Joint Chief of Staff was on October 1, 1989. He spent his longer days in the offices of the Chairman. People noticed Powell with the great success of the Desert Shield and ...
- 9428: Cynthia Ozick
- ... an actual survivor. Elie Wiesel asked Cynthia Ozick to wait a few years until there was no more witnesses to find fault with her representation of the Shoah. The Shoah is also known as Holocaust Day. This is the remembrance of all the Jews that were murdered during the Holocaust. The reason for that was because Cynthia Ozick falsified the event and mocked a sacred text. At all cost, the Shoal ...
- 9429: Death Can Come Too Late: Active and Passive Euthanasia
- ... try to decide whether certain actions are morally correct, they must ask themselves whether they would be willing for everyone to follow that rule given similar circumstances. Each of us is going to die some day, although most of us do not know where or when, and we will likely have little choice in the manner of death. But suppose you were given the choice between a painless, swift death or ...
- 9430: Suicide
- ... her parents had a divorce when she was about seven, but other then that she seemed to have the perfect life. She had been giving this serious thought for about a year, and then one day she actually attempted to kill herself. I thought if someone wanted to kill themselves it would be hard to fail. That's when I figured she didn't really want to die. It was a ...
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