Are there any parallels between euthanasia in animals and the discussions about euthanasia in humans? |
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The discussion of assisted suicide and euthanasia is the latest topic to be dominated by hysterical fears. |
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Despite their complexity, assisted suicide and euthanasia are both gaining acceptance. |
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In most places, both assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia are unlawful, although there are some exceptions. |
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No physician engaged in euthanasia or medically assisted suicide should be responsible for diagnosing brain death. |
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In my view, physician assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia are a matter of personal choice and human rights. |
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If assisted suicide or euthanasia were to be legalized, psychologists would play a key role in reducing possible abuses of the process. |
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What happens to autonomy and compassion when assisted suicide and euthanasia are legally practiced? |
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As a result, a special Senate committee reviewed the issues surrounding euthanasia and assisted suicide in Canada. |
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Wouldn't euthanasia or assisted suicide only be available to people who are terminally ill? |
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Pletcher said the big bay battled for as long as he could before developing laminitis, leading to his euthanasia. |
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Medieval scholasticism has continued to fuel contemporary debates on euthanasia and abortion and it has helped revive casuistry. |
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I support self-ownership, and hence oppose coerced euthanasia or delegated self-murder. |
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Once the disease reaches this stage, euthanasia or mercy killing is the only recourse. |
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The risk is that what starts as voluntary euthanasia becomes extended to involuntary euthanasia. |
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First, the patient may choose to die, usually described as voluntary euthanasia. |
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Further more euthanasia places a dangerous amount of power in the hands of doctors. |
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This will take some hours and is the most humane household method of euthanasia known at this stage. |
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But there is also a curious symmetry between opponents of the death penalty, and opponents of euthanasia and living wills. |
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Abortion has given way to euthanasia, and euthanasia shall give way to the killing of the criminally and mentally insane. |
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Her appeal follows the fourth consecutive fall in the number of reported cases of euthanasia. |
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His position on euthanasia grew from a principled view of patients' rights. |
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Mr Howard says free votes are rare and reserved for matters like euthanasia, abortion and capital punishment. |
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However, they do argue that to be acceptable, such non-provision must fulfil two conditions that rule out involuntary euthanasia in practice. |
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State statutes also ensure the humane euthanasia of furbearers, since they are not food animals. |
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I am no fan of euthanasia, but in this case I believe that there is a small benefit with no corresponding disbenefit in terms of precedent. |
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The euthanasia programme was discontinued on Hitler's order in August 1941 because it was causing public disquiet. |
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The subject of euthanasia is a complex one, it is one which no politician or medical expert should make. |
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This was the reason for his resolute opposition to stem cell research, abortion and euthanasia. |
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This role was not excluded but fell outside the criteria of care for euthanasia. |
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He explained that this is why the association supports training doctors to understand euthanasia. |
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An estimated 3600 cases of voluntary euthanasia are carried out each year in the Netherlands. |
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Critics of this decision will say that it represents a further step towards the legal recognition of euthanasia. |
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The message for everyone is that the debate about euthanasia must be continued. |
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This separation has not resulted in moral desensitisation of assisted suicide and euthanasia. |
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This would increase medical involvement and might be considered as moving towards euthanasia. |
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To do otherwise, they claim, would be tantamount to active euthanasia, and this they see as morally wrong. |
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Legalising voluntary euthanasia will be one step nearer having a truly civilised society. |
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How can euthanasia be murder if a person just wants to slip away with dignity and wants to end their suffering? |
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Forty per cent of the doctors said they had been asked by patients to assist in their suicide or in euthanasia. |
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Early on, he and his family began to talk gently about the possibility of euthanasia. |
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At the end of the lifespan, one way that the body may be killed or that natural death may be hastened is through euthanasia. |
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Suicide and attempted suicide are no longer crimes in Australia, but voluntary euthanasia or assisted suicide is illegal. |
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The Institute has also argued against abortion, euthanasia and human cloning. |
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Tom Hamilton has produced an acute and insightful response to my post on euthanasia, of a kind with which it is a pleasure to engage. |
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It would be involuntary, active euthanasia if the patient were not consulted and her wishes were not known. |
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It is not the case that the only alternative to keeping animals in a zoo is euthanasia. |
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It is opposed by an anti-life mentality as is seen in contraception, abortion, infanticide and euthanasia. |
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Many evolutionists advocate euthanasia as a wonderful means to rid us of unwanted burdens. |
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However in reality many people who do assist in euthanasia get fairly light sentences. |
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I have written about alcoholism, drugs and artificial insemination and euthanasia long before they gained focus as sociological issues. |
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The growing concern about health care costs increases the risks presented by legalizing assisted suicide and euthanasia. |
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Several polls on euthanasia and assisted suicide have been conducted among physicians. |
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In practice, many physicians oppose assisted suicide and euthanasia, and hospitals have barred assisted suicide from their premises. |
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The categorical imperative supports active euthanasia since no one would willfully universalize a rule which condemns people to unbearable pain before death. |
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Only once those dilemmas have been resolved, should we even begin to think about legalising either assisted suicide or euthanasia in this country. |
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Just a few weeks ago, Belgium broadened its existing law to include the possibility of euthanasia for children of all ages. |
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He was also a staunch opponent of contraception, euthanasia and abortion. |
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That argument is not watertight, however, because existing law does not formally allow euthanasia, for a variety of reasons mentioned briefly above. |
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And there are some patients who are not in pain at all, but still want euthanasia, because they are weak, constantly tired, nauseous, or breathless. |
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On the other hand voluntary euthanasia can be open to abuse, perhaps someone may gain from the patients demise and they intend to get rid of this patient at any cost. |
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Last year 749 people came to the Life-Ending Clinic with a euthanasia request, of which 133 were granted. |
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Particularly disturbing, however, is that the reasoning behind this cult of euthanasia is thoroughly sound. |
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It was not a step towards euthanasia or suicide, which remain illegal. |
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Similarly, a parallel slope envisaging a slide from physicians performing voluntary euthanasia to engaging in involuntary euthanasia requires empirical support. |
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Under current law, euthanasia is restricted to terminal patients suffering unbearable pain with no hope of improvement, and who request to die when they are of sound mind. |
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An example of involuntary, passive euthanasia would be withholding renal dialysis from an irreversibly comatose patient whose kidneys have failed. |
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Much more controversial are euthanasia and assisted suicide. |
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Another factor to why euthanasia is such a difficult subject is that it is a complicated task to decide whether someone is of sound mind, or is justifiable to kill mercifully. |
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In extreme circumstances of unbearable agony where others turn to euthanasia or mercy killing, Hindus know the sufferer may refuse food and water. |
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Why don't most politicians and many Canadians recognize the momentousness of a decision to legalize euthanasia? |
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In cases of euthanasia, for instance, death is not bad relative to the alternative for the euthanasee. |
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By no means am I suggesting that euthanasia should be outlawed, but rather that we should look at its inherent risks. |
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For myself I could hold it in my account with God to find such an euthanasia for you, even at this moment if it were best. |
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An approach to death as outlined above makes euthanasia inappropriate and irrelevant. |
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Killick Millard, founder of the Dignity in Dying society to support voluntary euthanasia. |
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They argue, if devocalization is banned, there will be a rise in the surrender, abuse and euthanasia of noisy dogs. |
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Some countries are more prohibitive than others when it comes to hot topics like euthanasia and cloning. |
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Amsterdam is the story of a euthanasia pact between two friends, a composer and a newspaper editor, whose relationship spins into disaster. |
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In Germany passive euthanasia is per missable if the patient clearly expresses the wish to die. |
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Its primary focus, after its discursion into assisted suicide and euthanasia, is on setting limits on individual autonomy. |
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The President of the Constitutional Court, Petre Lazaroiu, has stated that previous rulings had not forbidden euthanasia either. |
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Child euthanasia and medicalized killing of children already happens in the Netherlands and Belgium. |
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You only have two options in Ireland when a whale strands, refloating or euthanasia, and a whale that big just can't be refloated. |
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With great talent, elegance and subtlety, it condones and romanticizes euthanasia, treachery and adultery. |
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Dr Paddy Leahy, 80, pictured, who is believed to have carried out at least 50 mercy killings on dying patients, wants to end his own life by euthanasia in Thailand. |
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Each mouse received an intra-peritoneal injection of calcein 7 and 2 days before euthanasia in order to perform a histodynamic analysis of the bone formation rate. |
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Her decision has re-ignited the debate over assisted dying and euthanasia. |
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Territory legislation can be disallowed by the Commonwealth Parliament in Canberra, with one notable example being the NT's short lived voluntary euthanasia legislation. |
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It is the only country that does not have age restrictions on euthanasia. |
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The courts have until 8 March to appeal the euthanasia of Stella. |
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There has also been criticism of commercial racing internationally, particularly regarding the overbreeding of dogs, concealment of injury figures and high euthanasia rates. |
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Based on a stageplay, the story sees Viggo Mortensen play university professor John Halder who, after writing a book on euthanasia, is recruited by the National Socialists. |
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The ACC also opposes firmly euthanasia and assisted suicide. |
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The Netherlands has a long history of social tolerance and today is regarded as a liberal country, considering its drug policy and its legalisation of euthanasia. |
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