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Is Assisted Suicide Or Euthanasia Murder?

I would like you to step back from your collected thoughts and think about Assisted Suicide. Assisted Suicide is a very delicate and controversial subject around the world and has been for many years. Euthanasia is also a term commonly used for or with assisted suicide. Both of these terms defined mean the purposeful act of death by a terminally ill person going through pain and suffering, with the assistance of a doctor, family member, or any other willing individual. By reading The Merrian-Webster Dictionary and Thesaraus, I have found out that assisted suicide and euthanasia definition and information, have strayed from the original background. Upon reading about this subject, I would not have thought that it all originated from Greece. In fact the “Greeks are who considered assisted suicide and euthanasia first as just simply one mode of dying”. It wouldn’t be acceptable in most countries to use the excuse as “just another mode of dying” in today’s societies in most countries. It would probably be looked at as not being in your right mind to be able to just kill someone. Today, according to Answers.com/WikiAnswers, assisted suicide or euthanasia is legal in Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Luxemburg, Albania, Holland, Switzerland, Tialand, and Oregon in the United States.


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According to a group of people from http://euthanasia.procon.org/viewsource.asp?resourceID=000130 ,5th Century B.C.-1st
Century B.C. which is before Christ and Christianity, in Rome and Greece, they didn’t take the value of human life seriously like we do in today’s cultures and societies. Back then, abortions and assisted suicides were considered on the same level and basically done without having all of the legal steps and illegal worries involved that we encounter today. In fact, back then “there was a widespread support for voluntary death as opposed to prolonged agony and physicians...