Euthanasia, or assisted suicide is a very sensitive and debatable topic of todays world. With the medical technology of today, it is possible to keep a person alive even if brain dead, by the use of life support machines and other life sustaining equipment. The debate is that when a person is at a dead end, either in a coma or having been diagnosed with a terminal disease that ends in death, should that person …
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…to communicate their needs. Two types or examples of advanced directives are the Living Will, and the Durable Power of Attorney or Health Care Proxy. On another note, only 40% of Physicians would actually help in assisting a suicide of one of their terminally ill patients. 70% of the U.S. populations though, said they favored physician assisted suicide. Research has showed that hematologists and cancer specialists were the biggest opposers to euthanasia and physician assisted suicide.