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The Case For Euthanasia: Should Physician-Assisted Suicide Be Legalized?
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1546.... as well as where the state
courts stand in respect to this most delicate of issues. In the hopes of
clarification, we must first distinguish between active and passive
euthanasia. Passive euthanasia involves the patient's refusal of medical
assistance. It involves the right to die which is protected by the United
States Constitution clauses of due process liberty and the right to privacy
(Fourteenth Amendment). The right to doctor-assisted suicide, or active
euthanasia, consists of, "...a patient's right to authorize a physician to
perform an act that intentionally results .....
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Teenage Years
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 647.... is force
fed to us as we are trying our hardest to gulp it down as more and more is
shovelled in. Another great source of pressure is ourselves. We try our
hardest to be accepted among a certain group or circle. Whereas most of the
time we are rejected and we become depressed. Depression, another problem,
along with ignorance and apathy that thwarts our lives. A wise man when
questioned about his view on ignorance and apathy, said "I don't know, and
I don't give a damn.
We find outlets for our emotions through either art, poetry or music, being
the three most common. There .....
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The Uses Of Marijuana
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 546.... majority of Americans agree the drug should be available to these patients.
Hemp, which is known as the stalk of the plant can be used for fuel. It can be burned as is or processed into charcoal, methanol, methane, or gasoline. Fuels made from this plant are known as biomass fuels. These fuels are virtually free from metals and sulfur, so they don't cause nearly as much pollution as fossil fuels. It may one day replace gasoline. With wanting to conserve the forests, hemp is an alternative to paper. The problem with pulp paper is there are so many chemicals used to make .....
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Abortion Is Murder
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 781.... not alive. The human specie is only fully grown at adulthood, many of us here are not adults yet -- and by that definition, it wouldn't matter if your shot and killed on the street because "your not fully developed". We are a stage in development -- teenager -- just like a child is, just like a toddler is, just like an old man is, and just like a aborted child is. There is no magical transformation that occurs when a child is born. He has the same basic needs to survive before he is born, and the same needs after he is born.
The negative is going to attempt to make you beli .....
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Alcoholism
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 2067.... in the U.S. are considered alcoholics or at least experience drinking problems to some degree. Surveys have shown that more than one out of three Americans have a personal friend or relative who has had a drinking problem for ten years or longer. Almost two out of three Americans report that they know someone who drinks too much. It is estimated that there are 18 million alcoholic or problem drinkers in the U.S. For every alcoholic there are at least four other people who are affected by the alcoholic. This means that in the U.S. there are at least seventy-two million .....
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Vegetarian Diet
Number of pages: 9 | Number of words: 2410.... Greek philosopher Pythagoras, considered by many to be the father of vegetarianism, encouraged a non-meat diet among his followers as a diet that was the most natural and healthful (Messina 3).
A excludes the consumption of meat, and can be exercised by people for a number of reasons. The largest majority of individuals chose vegetarianism for health related reasons. For example, someone with an ulcer might be prescribed a strict diet of vegetables in order to promote the healing process. Or someone with a dangerously high level of cholesterol might be advised to follow a .....
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Euthanasia
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 840.... dying process is unnecessarily prolonged. There are two main arguments against that severe pain can and that if some form of killing by doctors, or others were made legal, it might easily be abused and people might be put to death for reasons unconnected with mercy.
However, many people see the argument in terms of their own right to die,when faced with the indignity of deterioration, dependence and hopeless pain.
Doctors although do at times deliberately give up trying to keep someone alive for whom there is no hope of recovery. There is a clean difference between givi .....
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Diabetes
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 646.... elderly the hardest, because they don't really have anyone to take care of them. And somethimes they get forgetful and don't take medication or their insulin shots. Heres a question "What is ?"
The word diabetes describes either a deficiency of insulin or a decreased ablitby of the body to use insulin. Insulin is secreted by the pancreas. Insulin allows sugar to enter body cells to be converted in to energy. It is also needed to synthesize protein and store fats. In uncontrolled diabetes glucose and lipids remain in teh bloodstream, with time, damage teh body's vital org .....
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