Submitted by raw0707 on December 7, 2007

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Euthanasia

Physician Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia:
Physician assisted suicide (PAS) is most widely defined as the act or practice of killing or permitting a person’s own death in which a doctor provides the means of death, usually by prescribing a lethal dose of drugs. The patient is usually responsible for performing the suicide. However, in euthanasia, often called mercy killing, the doctor causes the patient’s death by actually injecting the lethal dose or allowing a person to die. Euthanasia and physician assisted suicide are not ethical, as they both violate medical ethics, and religious views.
In ancient days, assisted suicide was frequently seen as a way to preserve one’s...

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