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This is the scenario: You are terminally ill, all medical treatments acceptable to you have been exhausted, and the suffering in its different forms is unbearable. Because the illness is so serious, you recognize that your life is drawing to a close. comes to m ....

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.... very old. Plato, Aristotle, and Luther- all eminent figures of history recommended it, but at the present, the only legal ways of ending life are abortion, capital punishment, war, and suicide. The issue of “assisted suicide” has been the subject of intense national debate. In June 1997 the U.S. Supreme Court handed down decisions in two cases challenging the legality of state bans on “assisted suicide”. In both cases the Court found that there was no constitutional right to assisted suicide and turned the matter to states to decide whether to ban or legalize assisted suicide. The use of in the Netherlands was first permitted in 1973. Cu ....