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is defined as “the act of killing an individual for reasons being considered merciful.” It is a planned self-deliverance from a painful and hopeless disease. Today’s society has many different names for it such as: suicide, self-deliverance, auto-, aid-in- ....

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.... gasp for it, but when he/she cannot breathe, the body is starved for oxygen and suffocates. This is not merciful by any means, ().” There is also another point that has to be looked at which is future medical advances. It would reduce pressure on scientists to come up with cures and symptomatic treatments for those of us who do want to live, no matter the circumstances. It would have to be thought of through a different point of view, think about the past. If had been legalized 40 years ago, there is a good chance that hospice care would not exist. I think that the improvement in terminal cared is directly effects how good treatments to min ....