* This article was written by Claire Andre and Manuel Velasquez. Matthew Donnelly was a man who wanted to die. He started begging to experiment with X-Rays. Donnelly lost his nose, his left hand, two fingers on his right hand, and part of his jaw. He was left blind and left with excruciating pain. Donnelly wanted to die; he didn’t want to have to go through this any more. After all the pleas to the doctors to take him out of his misery, the doctors wouldn’t do anything about it. His brother, Harold, couldn’t ignore his brother’s pleas anymore. Harold had to do something, he couldn’t stand seeing his brother pleading and begging anymore. Harold did what Matthew wanted to do, Matthew wanted to die. Harold went home, got his .30 Caliber hand pistol and went to the hospital and shot his brother. Harold was latter charged with murder.
"Physician Aid-in-Dying: Ethical Topic in Medicine." UW Departments Web Server. Web. 28 Mar. 2011.
* Clarence H. Braddock III, MD, MPH and Mark R. Tonelli, MD, MA wrote this. This article talks about the language of Assisted Suicide. There is PAD which is Physician aid-in-dying (PAD) refers to a practice in which a physician provides a competent, terminally ill patient with a prescription for a lethal dose of medication, upon the patient's request, which the patient intends to use to end his or her own life. Doctors use the root word of suicide and they use terms like “Self-Killing” and “Auto-Killing”. They do not want to be straight forward and be like we need to perform Assisted Suicide or you need to kill your self so they use those two terms. It is also asked if Physician Aid-In-Dying is the same as Euthanasia. In truths, no, Euthanasia is not the same as Physician Aid-In-Dying is not the same. Euthanasia is the use of lethal medications to deliberately end a patient's life. In PAD the doctor provides the patient with the medication but does not give the medication directly to the patient, but Euthanasia occurs when a third party administers medication or acts directly to end the patient’s life.
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