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Euthanasia
Number of Words: 840 / Number of Pages: 4
... can and that if some form of killing by doctors, or others were made legal, it might easily be abused and people might be put to death for reasons unconnected with mercy.
However, many people see the argument in terms of their own right to die,when faced with the indignity of deterioration, dependence and hopeless pain.
Doctors although do at times deliberately give up trying to keep someone alive for whom there is no hope of recovery. There is a clean difference between giving a fatal overdose of a drug to kill a patient and withholding a drug or some other treatment that prolongs life in painful ...
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How The Government May Have Created AIDS
Number of Words: 8886 / Number of Pages: 33
... ("NSM 200") -- in
which he indicated that "depopulation should be the highest priority of US
foreign policy towards the Third World." This Memorandum which can be
obtained from the US National Archives, which was only declassified very
quietly in 1990, was adopted by the National Security Council as official
US foreign policy towards the Third World. Now, this is a classic example
of the "secret government" in action, because of none of this was known to
the Congress, and certainly, it was not known to the American people. Did
any of you know that depopulation was considered a matter of US national ...
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The Human Genome Project
Number of Words: 451 / Number of Pages: 2
... Mao, may be interested in genetics and attempt to manipulate the gene pool, but do not have generations to wait . They usually do terrible and evil things long before the effects of a multigenerational genetic improvement program, however misguided, could be carried out.
Many religious leaders believe that genetic engineering is “playing god”. They worry that using this “unnatural power” will bring about something far more horrifying that anyone could imagine. However, the Biblical religions teach that human beings are, in some sense, co-creators with the Supreme Creator.
If creating new life forms ...
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The Ambivalence Of Abortion
Number of Words: 434 / Number of Pages: 2
... taking advantage of the fact that they
can easily have an abortion. Some say they are substituting birth control with
abortion. Nevertheless, no one ever said we can't place restrictions on
abortion but we can't let one bad apple spoil the whole bunch. The fact remains
that although some might take advantage of the situation, it is unconstitutional
to deny the opportunity to someone who REALLY has no other alternative but
abortion. Every woman (and person) has the right to make their own decisions.
No one has the right to deny another of their own opinion. Some may not believe
in or agree with abo ...
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Xenotransplantation
Number of Words: 393 / Number of Pages: 2
... population at risk, and few would voice ethical concerns about them being slaughtered for transplants since they are currently being killed for human consumption.
could affect the overall quality of human life, if perfected. People would suffer less from hemophilia, diabetes, Alzeimers, Parkinson’s diseases, and aids. People would no longer have to wait for transplants from other humans, for the animal supply would be abundant. It would affect me personally much in the same way. If any family member, friend, or even I myself were in need of a transplant of some sort, there would be necessary o ...
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Quit Smoking!
Number of Words: 926 / Number of Pages: 4
... rise dramatically. Smoking also makes the walls of the arteries harden which increases the chance for the artery to rupture. Another drug in cigarettes, nicotine, causes your blood pressure to rise, your heart rate to rise, and your heart increasingly requires more oxygen to keep pumping.
Along with heart disease, smokers are afflicted with life threatening cancers. “Cigarette smoking is the major cause of cancer of the lips, tongue, salivary glands, mouth, larynx, esophagus, and middle and lower pharynx”(Kim and Saltzberg 2). Stomach cancer has also been found to be directly related to cigarette ...
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Dreams
Number of Words: 2380 / Number of Pages: 9
... term activity that Freud most appreciated in this brief definition for,
as his understanding of the dynamics of dreaming increased, so did the
impression of ceaseless mental activity differing in quality from that of
ordinary waking life (Fine, 1973). In fact, the quality of mental activity
during sleep differed so radically from what we take to be the essence of
mental functioning that Freud coined the term "Kingdom of the Illogical" to
describe that realm of the human psyche. This technique of dream-
interpretation allowed him to penetrate (Fine, 1973).
We dream every single night whether it stay ...
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Bacteria
Number of Words: 736 / Number of Pages: 3
... the film on our teeth. People with diets high in sugar have a higher chance of getting tooth decay or cavities. The sugar us turned into lactic acid, the acid leads to a lost of calcium and if followed by the breaking down of the tooth.
Scientists have found that most stomach ulcers are the result of l infection. Many of us once believed that stress was the caused of ulcers. It is possible that the stressful environment helps the ’s growth.
Each species of pathogenic has a different way of being transmitted. It can be carried in water, in the air, in food, by insects, or by direct human contact. Fo ...
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Anabolic Steroids
Number of Words: 922 / Number of Pages: 4
... steroids are synthetic compounds that resemble the natural male
sex hormone testosterone. Male hormones have two different effects in the body.
Hormones have an anabolic effect, which stimulates growth, and they have an
androgenic effect, which increases male sexual characteristics. Anabolic
steroids are constructed synthetically to maximize the anabolic (growth) effect
and minimize the androgenic (male characteristic) effect. Steroids are
molecules that occur naturally in the body and are carried in the bloodstream
and act as messengers. The most important of these messages tell the ...
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Euthanasia And Living Wills
Number of Words: 1102 / Number of Pages: 5
... the question of euthanasia - a
question that each one of us should ponder long before we are put in this
situation.
What is euthanasia? Euthanasia is not mercy killing. It has absolutely
nothing to do with killing. On the contrary, euthanasia by definition simply
means "good death" and in the applied sense it refers to "the patients own
natural death without prolonging their dying process unduly." What this
attempts to accomplish is to allow a person to die with peace and dignity. In
most cases life-support systems simply prolong the terminal suffering of a
patient by a few more weeks or months, ...
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