Assertion: euthanasia | /r/HasProperty | illegal
Facets:
value: in most states
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value: in the uk
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value: in most countries
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value: currently
type: TEMPORAL
value: in new zealand
type: LOCATION
value: effectively
type: MANNER
value: around the world
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value: in india
type: LOCATION
value: everywhere
type: LOCATION
value: increasingly
type: DEGREE
value: in england
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value: in new jersey
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value: in norway
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value: technically
type: MANNER
value: in the philippines
type: LOCATION
value: in effect
type: OTHER
value: in many places
type: LOCATION
value: for humans in the united states
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: in the united kingdom
type: LOCATION
value: in massachusetts
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value: in most of the united states
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value: in britain
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value: except for few states
type: OTHER
value: under english law
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Source sentences:
text: Euthanasia is against the law in the UK where it is illegal to help anyone kill themselves.
text: Pro-euthanasia activists often point to countries like the Netherlands and Belgium, and states like Oregon, where euthanasia has been legalized, to argue that it is mostly unproblematic.
text: Lastly, if euthanasia were legalised, would we avoid the intolerable abuses that other civilised countries have slipped into before us?
text: However, except for few states, euthanasia in any form is considered illegal in majority of states.
text: Euthanasia is illegal Euthanasia status unknown Current status of euthanasia around the world:
text: Euthanasia is illegal in most of the United States.
text: Currently, euthanasia is illegal in Massachusetts.
text: In the United Kingdom, euthanasia and assisted dying are both illegal.
text: Euthanasia is illegal in most countries.
text: Although euthanasia is illegal in many places, it often is legal for the treatment of a terminally ill patient to be stopped under the direction of the patient or, in some cases, his or her family.
text: Sometimes referred to as assisted suicide or mercy killing , euthanasia is illegal in most parts of the world, but there are some places where it is legal under certain conditions.
text: I do not feel that euthanasia is a standard procedure, but apparently it is in different situations even though it is illegal.
text: The only reason euthanasia is still illegal is because if it was legal too many of us would choose it and the tax base would be severely reduced threatening the ruling class.
text: Euthanasia is illegal in the UK.
text: Euthanasia is currently illegal in New Zealand.
text: It is also illegal to "aid and abet suicide" under Section 179 of the New Zealand Crimes Act 1961.
text: Euthanasia is illegal in the Philippines.
text: Euthanasia and assisted suicide are illegal.
text: Euthanasia in any form is still illegal here.
text: Euthanasia is illegal in the UK.
text: Euthanasia is illegal in the UK.
text: Euthanasia is illegal in most countries.
text: Knowing that euthanasia is illegal in most states
text: In Brazil, although euthanasia is illegal, a doctor has recently been accused of seven murders after killing patients in intensive care.
text: Euthanasia is illegal under English law, but the number of countries where it is permitted is growing.
text: Euthanasia is illegal in most countries, although doctors do sometimes carry out euthanasia even where it is illegal.
text: Euthanasia is illegal in Britain.
text: While euthanasia is illegal in all fifty states, physician-assisted-suicide is legal in Oregon, Washington, Montana, Vermont, and New Mexico.
text: In New Jersey, euthanasia is illegal (as mentioned above).
text: Though euthanasia is still illegal in England, King George V was euthanised
text: While euthanasia is technically illegal in all states, some allow physician-assisted suicide.
text: 3 Euthanasia and assisted suicide are both illegal in the UK Credit:
text: Euthanasia is currently illegal in New Zealand, and it is illegal to "aid and abet suicide" under Section 179 of the New Zealand Crimes Act 1961.
text: Euthanasia is currently illegal in New Zealand, and it is illegal to "aid and abet suicide" under Section 179 of the New Zealand Crimes Act 1961.
text: Euthanasia is illegal in the UK.
text: It violates unmistakably the commandment against killing, and it is also therefore illegal.
text: Euthanasia is illegal in all fifty states.
text: Euthanasia, however, is illegal.
text: Back in the days when euthanasia was illegal but tolerated, the euthanising doctor was obliged to consult the relatives of the person who had asked to die.
text: This means that euthanasia would be a privilege but is illegal.
text: Euthanasia is illegal but can be made legal for some case.
text: Euthanasia and assisted suicide of any kind is currently illegal in New Zealand, and Hospice New Zealand, as an organisation, does not support a change in the law to legalise euthanasia or assisted suicide in any form.
text: If euthanasia is illegal, should suicide be illegal?
text: Kevorkian understood euthanasia is illegal and took the risks to end Mr. Youk’s suffering.
text: In effect, euthanasia is illegal in India but the issue has been quite confused with contradictory judgements being passed.
text: Euthanasia is illegal in Norway and is punishable by at least 8 years of prison, it is however possible to lower the sentence if the person permitted it (as the definition of euthanasia).
text: *; and in jurisdictions in which passive euthanasia is illegal, that will mean that determining the legality of withholding will depend on the definition chosen: if all withholding is passive euthanasia and all euthanasia is illegal, then all withholding will be illegal too.
text: Seen from a certain perspective, things might be almost as bad for the patient in a regime where euthanasia is illegal, and who is kept alive by means of burdensome medical treatment administered by medical staff labouring under the impression that withdrawing treatment is euthanasia and therefore forbidden.
text: Known also as assisted suicide or mercy killing, euthanasia is illegal for humans in the United States.
text: Euthanasia is illegal in most states because it is such a sensitive and controversial subject, with tangible parallels to the abortion debate.
text: Euthanasia is illegal in many countries, but what is regarded as "passive euthanasia", in which a patient is allowed to die by turning off life support or denying treatment is either tolerated or legal in some of those.
text: In the Netherlands and Belgium, where euthanasia has been legalized, it still remains homicide although it is not prosecuted and not punishable if the perpetrator (the doctor) meets certain legal conditions.
text: Pro-euthanasia activists often point to countries like the Netherlands and Belgium, and states like Oregon, where euthanasia has been legalized, to argue that it is mostly unproblematic.
text: These are just my reasons for why I think euthanasia should be legalized.
text: I strongly believe euthanasia should be legalized everywhere.
text: Something as powerful as euthanasia being legalized, guarantees that crime will escalate, and that it will not always be used humanely.
text: Euthanasia should be legalized.
text: I think euthanasia should be legalized if the person choosing to die understands what they are doing.
text: The issue hit the headlines following a petition calling for euthanasia to be legalized, it rode headlong into controversy with the full knowledge of the nursing staff.
text: In other words, if euthanasia were legalized, the state has no right to require a justification for its use by competent, freely consenting adults.
text: Although this question has largely been dodged – one could say "religiously" – by pro-euthanasia advocates, euthanasia could be used as a cost-saving measure, and is likely to be if legalized.
text: In this debate considering the political, religious, legal and personal views all these people want to justify their reasons as to why euthanasia should be legalized or not.
text: Others believe that the consent of the patient is strictly required if euthanasia is appropriately to be legalized.
text: However, if euthanasia is legalized, then patients may distrust the doctors.
text: However, if euthanasia is legalized, then patients may distrust the doctors.
text: The next principle is the principle of autonomy, which is probably going to be at the core of this discussion of whether euthanasia ought to be legalized.
text: Anti-euthanasia activists have been pointing out for years that wherever euthanasia is legalized, it is not long before the “strict safeguards” touted by pro-death politicians and activists as protection to ensure euthanasia is only used in extreme cases begin tumbling down or being wantonly ignored.
text: However, maybe one recent development in Canada is sufficiently disturbing that it will wake some people up to what lies in wait once euthanasia is legalized.
text: In other words, if euthanasia were legalized, the state has no right to require a justification for its use by competent, freely consenting adults.
text: Although this question has largely been dodged – one could say "religiously" – by pro-euthanasia advocates, euthanasia could be used as a cost-saving measure, and is likely to be if legalized.
text: You might argue that that’s 0.4 percent too many, but get this: A 1991 report—written a decade before euthanasia was legalized—put the number at 0.8 percent.
text: It demonstrates that the only way euthanasia could be legalized is by a court decision, not by a statute.
text: The frequency of these deaths increased after legalization … Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide are increasingly being legalized, remain relatively rare, and primarily involve patients with cancer.
text: Mr. Fletcher argues that euthanasia should be legalized because:
text: The trends occurring in these states can project what could transpire if physician-assisted suicide were legalized elsewhere, as well as allow a glimpse into what could happen if euthanasia was legalized.
text: In 2002, when euthanasia was legalized, it was said that it would only be performed in very rare circumstances…
text: This term was unknown to me until my government teacher assigned our class a debate on whether euthanasia should be legalized or not.
text: The subject of whether euthanasia should be legalized or not was not confronted until Sir Thomas More published his book, Utopia, in 1516.
text: Moreover, in practice, some will lose autonomy whichever legal path is chosen: if euthanasia is legalised, precedent shows that legally unprotected persons too often have their autonomy to choose life undermined; if it remains illegal, Persons genuinely desiring euthanasia lose their autonomy to choose death.
text: So far the arguments we have looked at for and against euthanasia judge right and wrong on the basis of the consequences believed to ensue if euthanasia were legalised.
text: If euthanasia is legalised we can expect advances in ktenology (the science of killing) at the expense of treatment and symptom control.
text: Other assessments have been far less conservative, and these figures pre-date February 1994 when euthanasia in that country was effectively legalised.
text: Eelco came of age just as euthanasia was being legalised.
text: There are two distinct questions: is Euthanasia morally justifiable, and should it be legalised.
text: If euthanasia is legalised we can expect advances in ktenology (the science of killing) at the expense of treatment and symptom control.
text: Other assessments have been far less conservative, and these figures pre-date February 1994 when euthanasia in that country was effectively legalised.
text: If euthanasia was legalised, the relationship of trust between doctors and patients can be destroyed.