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Physician Assisted Suicide Right/Wrong
The argument that has sent people into a confusion is whether or not people who are suffering from terminal or excruciatingly painful illnesses have the right to take their own lives with the help of physician-assisted suicide. Proponents contend that what one does with one's life is of no consequence to anyone else -- that it is both ethical and humane to allow someone to be relieved ....
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.... the Christian Church, encouraged by the arguments of St.Augustine, adopted a strict prohibition against suicide precisely because it had become so popular among Christians. A vogue of suffering,and even collective suicide ,had by then begun to threaten the Church. Any religion which preaches that life on earth is a vale of tears, a mere prelude to a better afterlife, would seem to be invitng its adheents to kill themselves, unless it can offer a good reason f ....
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