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Assisted Suicide is when a person seeks help from another person to aide them in killing themselves. Generally, this is done by a physician for those that are terminally ill with no chance of making a recovery and with great likely hood their death will be drawn out and painful. There are two main reasons why assisted suicide is such a large issue. The first one being that health care professionals take a Hippocratic Oath to cure the sick, not assist them to die; and many see aiding a person in death is harmful.
The other reason is that murder and suicide are both illegal in the United States. In the eyes of many people helping someone end their life is wrong and it's the same as murder. They believe that no matter the reason no one should help another take their own life.
In America, this became a nation wide issue in 1998 when Dr. Kevorkian became popular in the news for airing a video tape of him administering the lethal injection into one of his patients. He and many others......

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