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Comparison of Physician Assisted Suicides like Euthanasia

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Compare and contrast physician-assisted suicide with euthanasia. Do you believe in a "right" to die? Please also discuss or analysis about the following concepts:
- Passive euthanasia
- Involuntary enthanasia, nonvoluntary euthanasia, or voluntary euthanasia And your thought.

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Short essay comparing physician assisted suicides to euthanasia, references included. The explanation is given in 392 words with references.

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Problem: Compare and contrast physician-assisted suicide with euthanasia. Do you believe in a "right" to die?

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I think there is a very fine line between physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia. Physician-assisted suicide to me is when a person requests their doctor to give them something to end their life. This is something they've been thinking about for a while, have discussed with at least the physician and is prepared for. Euthanasia is when they are 'put out of the misery". When I hear euthanasia I automatically think animals; I think of a dog or cat that was hit by a car ...

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