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Euthanasia Is Religious, Medically, And Legally Wrong
<view this essay>.... of murder in the second digree. The courts were obliged to find
him guilty as he broke the law by taking the life of another human being.
Robert Latimer took it upon himself to decide that his daughter would never
lead a full life. Tracy Latimer was never given an opportunity for success, as
her life was taken. A not guilty verdict would have told people that parents
of disabled children can perform both voluntary euthanasia on their children.
In the United States, euthanasia was voted on for the first time in the state
of Washington. Although polls before the vote revealed strong support for
it,the ballot was defeated by fifty-four to forty-six percent .....
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Euthanasia, Mercy Or Murder?
<view this essay>.... to say what is morally correct? One can only impose their own morals upon themselves.
People believe that they have the right to decide whether their animals should continue to live or not, so why isn’t it legal to make this decision about human lives? We kill our animals because they have a terminal illness or because they are suffering. Therefore, people, as higher beings, should have the right to decide whether they want to end their suffering. Denying terminally ill patients the right to die with dignity is unfair and cruel. It is worse to keep someone alive who doesn’t want to live and suffer from pain, rather than letting them have a peaceful and l .....
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Opposing Euthanasia
<view this essay>.... play God. They usurp the divine function, and interfere with the divine plan. For this and many other reasons I oppose euthanasia. In the rest of my position paper I will support my argument against euthanasia with evidence.
Euthanasia is the practice of painlessly putting to death persons who have incurable, painful, or distressing diseases or handicaps. It comes from the Greek words for "good" and "death", and is commonly called mercy killing. Voluntary euthanasia may occur when incurably ill persons ask their physician, friend or relative, to put them to death. The patients or their relatives may ask a doctor to withhold treatment and let them die. Many crit .....
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Flour Baby Project: Parenting
<view this essay>.... with iron in it and whole grains, beans, raisins, and nuts. I have to
get plenty of sleep exercise not drink coffee and check my families history
for genetic disorders and I have to start budgeting all the money in the
house to save up for the new baby. Having a baby is a lot of trouble but in
the end it is the best thing ever. Having to lug around this baby causes a
lot of back pain and a lot of stress on the body itself. The stomach gets
really big and stretch marks do appear and it just gets heavy at times.
The pregnancy keeps on going for 2 more trimesters the 2nd trimester is
based on shopping for maternity cloths, checking for blood sugar, avo .....
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The Ebola Virus
<view this essay>.... The workers had been exposed to tissue and blood from African
green monkeys imported from Uganda. They were to be used as tests subjects.
25 of the workers were exposed to the virus, 7 died. The same virus had
confirmed cases in Uganda at approximately the same time. Sporadic
instances of the Marburg strain have been reported in several other African
countries since then. The first major outbreak of the ebola virus was in
1976, in Zaire and in Sudan. "Over 500 cases were reported, with mortality
rates of 88% in Zaire and 53% in Sudan"1 The cause of these outbreaks still
remain unknown. No association with monkeys could be attributed to either
of the outbr .....
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AIDS Esssay
<view this essay>.... of drug abuse has lead to many people contracting AIDS. The people in this world have not realized that doing drugs can and will result in deadly consequences such as AIDS. AIDS, as a result of drugs, causes families to break up. The right and wrong of drugs and AIDS prevents things such as family time during the week. There is not enough care and effort put into the families when a person is engulfed by AIDS. Drugs has made AIDS a moral issue because there is no family time spent when there should be.
The Bible says that no one should have sex before marriage. One who believes in the Bible would follow this command. Some people think that nothing will .....
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Dreams
<view this essay>.... REM dreaming performs a neurological
erasure function, eliminating extraneous information build-up in the memory
system; and (6) that, in a more cognitive psychological explanation, REM
dreaming enhances memory storage and reorganization.
Contrary to popular belief, dreaming is not caused by eating certain
foods before bedtime, nor by environmental stimuli during sleeping. Dreaming is
caused by internal biological process. Some researchers have proposed the
activation-synthesis hypothesis. Their neurological research indicates that
large brain cells in the primitive brain stem spontaneously fire about every 90
minutes, sending random stimuli to cortical a .....
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Homosexuality
<view this essay>.... arguments that
homosexuality is immoral or unnatural.
Levin exemplifies the point that homosexuality is misuse of body parts
with the case of Mr. Smith, who likes to play "Old MacDonald" on his teeth so
devoted is he to this amusement, in fact, that he never uses his teeth for
chewing but instead takes nourishment intravenously. This is a clear example
where Mr. Smith is misusing his teeth. In addition to misuse, Levine states
that this man will have a dim future on purely physiological grounds (Levin 355).
Since Mr. Smith isn't using his teeth for chewing, his digestive system will
suffer from disuse. The result will be Mr. Smiths deteriorating health. .....
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