For preventing the spread of mad cow disease worldwide. Years after it was supposedly vanquished, mad cow disease, the brain infection that kills cows and some people who eat them, is on a comeback. The disease has spread widely in Europe, and there are danger signs in the United States, where has ...

Euthanasia derived from the Greek language which means good death. Euthanasia is the practice of ending a life to release an individual from suffering an incurable disease or intolerable pain. Having to lay in bed twenty-four hours a day is no way to live a life. People that suffer from a serious di...

Euthanasia Euthanasia, also known as mercy killing, is enveloped as deeply in medical and ethical controversy as abortion. Both issues involve the termination of a life, and both conjure strong arguments for advocacy and opposition. Pro-euthanasia arguments emphasize the right of patients to ...

Euthanasia (also known as mercy killing) is the act or practice of painlessly putting to death persons suffering from painful or incurable disease or incapacitating physical disorder. The question about weather this is morally right or wrong has posed a major ethical dilemma on the world today. The ...

Anyone who has watched a loved one suffer from a terminal disease or unrecoverable injury for any length of time will tell you after death, "It was time to let her go," or "At least he's not in pain anymore" or "She suffered terribly, for too long." In these insta...

Euthanasia The intentional killing by act or omission of a dependent human being for his or her alleged benefit is the definition of Euthanasia. Euthanasia is just a subtle word for murder. There are three types of Euthanasia; Voluntary Euthanasia when the person who is killed has requested to ...

Euthanasia"Euthanasia" or commonly known as assisted suicide has become one of the most talked about social issues in the World. Euthanasia, or mercy killing, presents some very difficult and painful dilemmas for doctors, patients, family members, and moral philosophers. (426) Even with these diffi...

Quinlan Case of 1975On April 15, 1975 Karen Ann Quinlan age 21 became ill. She had difficulty breathing, became unresponsive and showed signs of brain damage. Her doctors described her condition as persistent vegetative state. At times she could not breathe and eventually a respirator tube was in...