.... have changed over the years, it has not ceased to happen. The first suicide prevention Centre didn't come until almost 4000 years later. In 1774, England created the first Centre to try to prevent attempted suicides. Suicide prevention isn't happening until it's too late. One high school, in a small town in Quebec, had four suicides in seven weeks. After these had happened, the school invited parents in to discuss suicide prevention. (CTV News 11:00 p.m. January 6, 1997.) These might have been able to be prevented if communities would assume their roles and discuss it on a regular basis and not have suicide be a word that is whispered but never spo .....

.... Hans Asperger published accounts of this disorder. They contained detailed descriptions, and offered the very first attempt to explain . Eighty percent of autistic people are seen as mentally retarded. Autistic people seem isolated, and detached from the world, sort of like they are in their own dream world, which is what separates them from mentally retarded people. They don't seem aware that people are around them, including family members. Another thing that separates them from the mentally retarded is their display of strange postures, manners, habits, and compulsions. They might display rocking, hand flapping, strange food preferences, no eye cont .....

.... illness. How “right” is it to keep injecting drugs and performing small operations to keep the patient alive, only to lengthen his suffering? As in the case of the irreversibly comatose patient, euthanasia is not only morally justified, it is the only alternative for those truly concerned with the patient’s welfare. Euthanasia is clinically defined as an “act or practice of painlessly putting to death persons suffering from incurable conditions or diseases. The word “euthanasia” is generally also applied to cases in which the doctor withdraws the machines or drugs, which are keeping the patient alive, and thus allows the patient to die naturally. Euthanasi .....

.... is a huge debate. People with anorexia may believe they would be happier and maybe more successful if they were thin, and want everything in their lives to be perfect, sometimes obtaining an obsessive-compulsive disorder. Many anorexic people are usually good students, and involved in many things, to keep them busy and moving. However, the pressure comes out when a grade drops, or when an emotion triggers. Many anorectics seem to be part of a very close, constricted families, having a special relationship with one of the parents. Anorectics are often highly conforming people an anxious to please, even obsession in their habits. There are also many problems .....

.... ground leveling of the ozone; the ozone layer is trapping heat radiated from the ground in the lower atmosphere. This is causing extremely negative effects on the earth's environment (Caldara 19). Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are a group of chemical compounds, which are widely used as propellants for aerosol spray cans. These compounds are greatly responsible for the depletion of the ozone layer in the stratosphere (Gutnik 54). CFCs are most commonly used as the propellant in spray cans, the coolant in refrigerators and air conditioners, in foam and plastic insulation, and in industrial solvents (Caldara 20). Industry began using CFCs in the World War II er .....

.... mostly in older people. In the United States more than one-fifth of the deaths in the early '90s was caused by cancer, only the cardiovascular diseases accounted at a higher percentage. In 1993 the American Cancer Society predicted that about 33% of Americans will eventually get cancer. In the United States skin cancer is the most dominating in both men and women, followed by prostate cancer in men and breast cancer in women. Yet lung cancer causes the most deaths in men and women. Leukemia, or cancer of the blood, is the most common type in children. An increasing incidence has been clearly observable over the past few decades, due in part to impro .....

.... A doctor is to be known as a healer, not an agent of death. A family is supposed to love and support, not kill and inherit. Every person makes the light of the world brighter. The world needs everyone's power and contribution. It's the power and energy of the elderly, and the strength and will of the ill, that give the world life. The light has become very dim with the crime and corruption in today's world, we can't afford to throw lives away because some think they're meaningless. If we continue to accept the merciless killings and suicides of the helpless but powerful, the light will soon burn out. There will be no energy in the world. and doctor-a .....

.... and are dependent on the drug alcohol. NCADD and ASAM defines as: A primary, chronic disease with genetic, psychosocial, and environmental factors influencing its development and manifestations. The disease is often progressive and fatal. It is characterized by continuos or periodic: impaired control over drinking, preoccupation with the drug alcohol, use of alcohol despite adverse consequences, and distortions in thinking, most notably denial. (1) Vanessa Gibson, senior lecturer, University of Northumbria at Newcastle informs alcohol’s main ingredients are ethyl and water, and is made by fermenting fruits and other grains (1). The chance taken b .....