There are board certified specialists in pain management who will not only help alleviate physical pain but are skilled in providing necessary support to deal with emotional suffering and depression that often accompanies physical pain.

Nearly all pain can be eliminated

Should people be forced to stay alive?

Euthanasia exposes vulnerable people to pressure to end their lives

Allowing euthanasia will discourage the search for new cures and treatments for the terminally ill

Allowing euthanasia will lead to less good care for the terminally ill

The kind of humane impulses which have sustained the development of hospice medicine and care would be undermined because too many would think euthanasia a cheaper and less personally demanding solution.

But one cannot care for people by killing them.

It is a type of killing, therefore, which cannot be accommodated in a legal system for which belief in the worth and dignity of every human being is foundational.

The answer is of course, no, we have no right to deny them the dignified death that we ourselves naturally desire.

The process of euthanasia does not restrict or infringe on anyone’s fundamental rights and therefore does no harm.

Because we can determine the course of our lives by our own will, we have the right to live our lives and determine our own course

While the intentions may be good, no person has the right to demand of another person to live a life of suffering, in fact, that is immoral as it removes their right to choose.

Euthanasia is a direct violation of doctors’ Hippocratic Oath – a historic oath whereby health care professionals swear that, “To please no one will I prescribe a deadly drug nor give advice which may cause his death.”

That alone is enough for euthanasia to be deemed immoral,

That alone is enough for euthanasia to be deemed immoral, and probably illegal as well.

assive euthanasia involves gradually taking someone off of a medication that keeps them alive or disconnecting a person from a life support machine. This kind of euthanasia is the more accepted of the two.

Shouldn’t everyone have the right to a dignified death or should terminally ill patients be left to suffer?

PAS gives individuals the right to their own deaths.

No one grants us permission to live, so why must we ask for it in order to die?

The debate revolving around the legalization of euthanasia and assisted suicide has existed in the United States since the late 18th century.

Oregon was the first state to legalize physician-assisted suicide, with the passing of the Death with Dignity Act in 1997. Two other states, Washington and Vermont, followed suit.

Medical experts in the United States remain divided in their opinion of whether physician-assisted suicide should be legal

Lean finely textured beef brings down the cost of ground beef by about 3 percent, which can add up quickly in a program that feeds more than 31 million school children each day.

Thousands of schools across the U.S. rushed last year to stop feeding their students meat that contained the ammonia-treated beef, known by industry as lean finely textured beef.

As of Sept. 3, seven states put in orders to the USDA for about 2 million pounds of beef that may contain the controversial product for the meals they serve in the 2013-14 school year. At this time last year there were only three states — Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota — that had put in orders for beef that may contain lean finely textured beef.