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suicide1
Title: suicide1
Category: Literature / English
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suicide1
Physician-Assisted Suicide
Kathleen M. Foley, author of Competent Care for the Dying Instead of Physician-Assisted Suicide,
believes doctors should develop treatments for the physical and psychological problems of dying patients
rather than helping them commit suicide. Available data suggests most physicians do not receive training
in the care of dying patients. Dying patients experience physical symptoms such as pain, psychological
problems such as anxiety and depression and existential distress (described as the experience of life …showed first 75 words of 1516 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1516 total…taken lightly, nonetheless, I believe in the most tragic cases euthanasia should be permissible.
Bibliography
References
1. Foley KM. Competent Care for the Dying Istead of Physician-Assisted Suicide.
The New England Journal of Medicine. 1997; v336: 54-57.
2 . Lane B. Euthanasia: the Debate Continues. 26 June 1996.
http://www.mala.bc.ca./www/ipp/ethanas.htm (25 February 1997).
3-6. Rachels J. Euthanasia. http://www.lcl.cmu.edu/...intro/part3/Rachels.txt
(9 March 1997).
7. Hannigan, J. (1986). As I Have Loved You. New York: Paulist Press.
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