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| | Euthanasia |
 | | Euthanasia is an extremely complex issue that brings us to the crossroads of life and death, of free determination and religious belief, and of therapy and medical intervention to bring about death. | | | Although no physician is bound to perform euthanasia, a physician who, exercising his or her freedom of conscience, refuses to perform euthanasia, must transfer the patient's medical record to a colleague of the patient's choosing. | | | The principal arguments against euthanasia and its decriminalisation are, first of all, that euthanasia is deemed to be incompatible with the fundamental human right to life and the concept of human dignity from which it stems. |
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http://assembly.coe.int/Documents/WorkingDocs/doc03/EDOC9898.htm
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| | Euthanasia |
| | Euthanasia presents an ethical problem for patients who know that their condition is incurable or irremediable and their suffering unendurable only if their theology or philosophy has persuaded them that no human involvement in the termination of life is morally permissible. | | | The most difficult questions of euthanasia may arise when individuals are in an unconscious state or coma and are unable to convey their wishes. | | | Pain or suffering is to be endured with as much dignity as patients can summon, as long as there is present a possibility of relief or cure. |
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http://www.americanhumanist.org/about/euthanasia.html
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| | Voluntary Euthanasia |
| | Thus, if a doctor's view of her moral or professional responsibilities is at odds with the request of her patient for euthanasia, provision must be made for the transfer of the patient's care to another who faces no such conflict. | | | As regards the alleged psychological inevitability of moving from voluntary to non-voluntary euthanasia (where there is no way of knowing the patient's views because the patient is neither competent nor has made any provision for a proxy to make a substituted judgment), again it is hard to see the alleged inevitability. | | | The central ethical argument for voluntary euthanasia -- that respect for persons demands respect for their autonomous choices as long as those choices do not result in harm to others -- is directly connected with this issue of competence (cp. |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/euthanasia-voluntary
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| | Among the behavioral states that have been elicited by noxious stimuli in animals undergoing euthanasia are distress vocalizations, struggling, aggression, salivation, urination, defecation, emptying of anal sacs, pupillary dilation, tachycardia, sweating, and reflexive contractions of skeletal muscles causing shivering, tremors, or spasms. | | | However humane, no euthanasia method is likely to be carried out unless it is compatible with the investigator's research needs and aesthetically acceptable to the persons who must execute it. | | | Among physical methods of euthanasia, for example, stunning an animal (a method strongly discouraged under AVMA guidelines, except when carried out with the requisite skill) has been found to block pain perception by rendering the animal unconscious and unable to perceive pain. |
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http://las.rutgers.edu/manual/ch10.htm
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| | International Task Force - FAQs |
| | Proponents of euthanasia and assisted suicide often use euphemisms like "deliverance," "death with dignity," "aid-in-dying" and "gentle landing." If a proposed change in public policy has to be promoted with euphemisms, this may be due to the fact that the use of accurate, descriptive language would make its chilling reality too obvious. | | | Legalized euthanasia or assisted suicide raises the potential for a profoundly dangerous situation in which the "choice" of assisted suicide or euthanasia is the only affordable option for some people. | | | Cheney was then taken to a psychologist who said she was competent but possibly under the influence of her daughter who was "somewhat coercive." Finally, a managed care ethicist who was overseeing her case determined that she was qualified for assisted suicide, and the lethal drugs were prescribed. |
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http://www.internationaltaskforce.org/faq.htm
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| | EUTHANASIA |
| | I believe that euthanasia should be available to those who choose to die for a more peaceful death or as a way out of their life if they are miserable, due to perhaps a physical disability. | | | If they think euthanasia is morally wrong then they shouldn't do it but they should suggest a doctor who could do it because it is the patients right or the patients family's right to decide to do it or not. | | | I believe that euthanasia should be available to those who choose to die for a more peaceful death or as a way out of their life if they are miserable. |
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http://www-hsc.usc.edu/~mbernste/ethics.euthanasia.html
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| | A doctor who prescribes active euthanasia for a patient may unwittingly prevent a possible recovery he did not anticipate. | | | Soon this would apply not only to voluntary euthanasia but also to involuntary euthanasia as various court precedents begin to broaden the application of the right to die to other groups in society like the disabled or the clinically depressed. | | | Another concern with active euthanasia is that it eliminates the possibility for recovery. |
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http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/probe/docs/euthan.html
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| | Euthanasia: hospital humanism |
| | More and more doctors are deciding whether or not to treat patients on the basis of whether they believe the patient’s life is worth living, not on the basis of their intrinsic value as human beings. | | | Dutch cancer specialist Zybigniew Zylicz says that of the 100 or so dying cancer patients who asked him for euthanasia (out of some 400), 98% changed their mind after adequate counselling and skilled pain relief. | | | Many evolutionists advocate euthanasia as a wonderful means to rid us of unwanted burdens. |
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http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v19/i3/euthanasia.asp
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| | The decision to stay during the euthanasia is a very personal one, which I will not even begin to try to talk about here. | | | There are only two methods of humane euthanasia for rats and mice. | | | However be aware that you are within your rights to be present when the animal is put down, if you wish. |
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http://members.aol.com/juliesrats2/euthanasia.html
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| | Pet Euthanasia... What You Should Know Before The Appointment. |
| | Your veterinarian will try to accommodate your wishes, but remember that it is imperative that the solution be injected within the vein for the procedure to unfold properly. | | | Maybe we humans are so close to our pets that we somehow project our own humanity and mortality into them and we actually see ourselves at our own last moments. | | | After a short time the pet is relaxed and calm. |
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http://www.thepetcenter.com/imtop/euthanasia.htm
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| | ProLifeBlogs: Euthanasia Archives |
| | One tactic of the right-to-die movement is to point to illegally assisted suicides and use this criminal behavior to justify legalizing it. | | | From LifeSite A pro-life nurse representing a leading organization of medical professionals that opposes abortion says pro-life advocates should be on guard for problems involved with living wills. | | | From The Herald Sun Doctors play a part in almost two in three patient deaths in Victorian hospitals, a study into the ethics of euthanasia has found. |
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http://www.prolifeblogs.com/articles/archives/euthanasia/index.php
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| | Index and Euthanasia Glossary for Exit Web pages and related material |
| | A pioneer of a gently, gently approach to solving problems in individual cases of the right to die with dignity, using skills as a negotiator, nurse, a knowledge of the law and of human nature to relieve what seem to be impossible situations. | | | Philosophical approaches Elizabeth Telfer on utilitarian and non-utilitarian approaches to voluntary euthanasia. | | | Euthanasia without active intervention, relying on non- treatment. |
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http://www.euthanasia.cc/a_z.html
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| | Euthanasia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | An example of this might be if a patient with decisional capacity (or their surrogate) is told what will happen. | | | Terminal sedation is a combination of medically inducing a deep sleep and stopping other treatment, with the exception of medication for symptom control (such as analgesia). | | | An example of this might be if a patient has decisional capacity but is not told they will be euthanized; or, if a patient is not conscious or lacks decisional-capacity and their surrogate is not told the patient will be euthanized. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia
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| | Open Directory - Society: Issues: End-of-Life: Euthanasia |
| | BBC News - Euthanasia Special Report - Guide to end-of-life choice includes basic concepts, international laws, for and against perspectives, case studies, and news articles and audio. | | | International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide - Addressing the issues of euthanasia, assisted suicide, advance directives, assisted suicide proposals, "right-to-die" cases, euthanasia practices in the Netherlands, disability rights, and pain control. | | | Ethical Issues in Terminal Health Care - Articles and essays on patients' rights, ethics committees, and euthanasia. |
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http://dmoz.org/Society/Issues/End-of-Life/Euthanasia
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| | BBC - Religion & Ethics - Euthanasia |
| | Accepting euthanasia weakens society's respect for human life | | | Euthanasia may not be in the best interests of the patient | | | Euthanasia may be necessary for the fair distribution of medical resources |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/ethics/euthanasia
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| | Ethics Updates.-, Euthanasia and end-of-life decisions |
| | Making Choices and Taking Charge (New York: W. Norton, 1993), Timothy E. Quill, M.D. argues, at least in part on the basis of his experience as a hospice director, in favor of physician-assisted euthanasia; for an interesting contrast, see Euthanasia Is Not the Answer: A Hospice Physician's View, by David Cundiff. | | | Resources on End-of-Life Issues from the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. | | | CURE -- Citizens United Resisting Euthanasia a grassroots advocacy network that defends the rights of patients to receive medical treatment, particularly when care is critical. |
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http://ethics.acusd.edu/Applied/Euthanasia
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| | EUTHANASIA - FAST ACCESS - LIVING WILLS - EXIT |
| | EXIT is also very much concerned over the development of legislation that furthers its aims to ensure rights and safeguards for dying people, and provides academic analysis and criticism particularly in the areas of euthanasia, assisted suicide and living wills. | | | It is promoted by Exit (formerly the Scottish Voluntary Euthanasia Society), which campaigns for a change in British law to promote individual patient choice, and strategies for improved palliative care and other resources at the end of life. | | | There is no information on methods on this website, but the methods are generally made available to members through publications and workshops. |
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http://www.euthanasia.cc
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| | Compassionate Healthcare Network CHN opposes euthanasia by actively defending the inherent value of all human life. | | | Euthanasia: The Debate Continues Sponsored by the Institute of Practical Philosophy at Malaspina University-College in British Columbia, Canada. | | | Euthanasia in the Territory Bill Uren SJ reviews some developments in the euthanasia debate in Australia. |
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http://www.shc.edu/theolibrary/euthan.htm
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| | There is also a respiratory depression associated with barbiturates but it is probably not a factor since the other effects are more rapid. | | | This is probably the actual cause of death in most instances when barbiturates are used for euthanasia. | | | There are variations in the agents used for euthanasia but most of them are a concentrated barbiturate, so I will answer the question based on what happens when these are injected. |
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http://www.vetinfo.com/ceuth.html
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| | Euthanasia is the intentional killing by act or omission of a dependent human being for his or her alleged benefit. | | | The call for euthanasia surfaces in our society periodically, as it is doing now under the guise of "death with dignity" or assisted suicide. | | | There is a difference between allowing nature to take its course and actively assisting death. |
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http://www.nrlc.org/euthanasia
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| | Extermination of the Mentally Disabled |
| | A: The patients went to a euthanasia institution after the written formalities were concluded - I need not repeat these formalities here, they were physical examinations, comparison of the files, etc. The patients were led to a gas chamber and were there killed by the doctors with carbon monoxide gas (CO). | | | This institution was renovated and furnished as a place in which, by consensus of opinion, the above mentioned Euthanasia has been systematically practiced for months- approximately since February 1941. | | | Q: Witness, when adult persons were selected for euthanasia and sent by transport to euthanasia stations for that purpose, by what methods were the mercy deaths given? |
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http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/document/DocEuth.htm
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| | It in no way shape and/or form implies any inequity between men and women in the medical proffesion. | | | This Web Page is devoted to an evaluation of physician assisted suicide, removal of life support, and other forms of euthanasia with a Christian veiwpoint. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/tx5/wren/euth0.html
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| | Priests for Life offers ongoing assistance to the clergy and the entire pro-life movement in addressing the topics of abortion and euthanasia. | | | Click here to see euthanasia information from the Magisterium of the Church, Catholic lay sources, Fr. | | | Click here to See What Abortion Looks Like! |
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http://www.priestsforlife.org/euthanasia/euthanasia.html
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| | USCCB - Assisted Suicide/Euthanasia |
| | Life at Risk Newsletter, a newsletter, published six times a year, focuses on euthanasia and assisted suicide trends |
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http://www.usccb.org/prolife/issues/euthanas
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