Part one of term paper
The argument that has sent people into a confusion is whether or not people who are suffering from terminal or excruciatingly painful illnesses have the right to take their own lives with the help of physician-assisted suicide. Proponents contend that what one does with one's life is of no consequence to anyone else -- that it is both ethic ...

Part two of term paper
... argument. In this non-religous age,any debate would probably have to begin by reviewing the religous objections to suicide which, in Judeo-Christian cultures, have been the most persistent and are stilll widespread. The most basic of these is that suiicide is forbidden by the Bible. In fact, there are no specific biblical instructions against suicide, only prohibitions of killing which are better interpreted as forbidding the unlawful killing of others.Besides, the suicides that do occur in the ...