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6 pages in length. To sustain one's existence beyond what is widely considered as a reasonable semblance of life quality has sparked an inordinate amount of controversy between those who support or oppose the notion of nutritional withdrawal as a way in which to aide a terminal or comatose patient's demise. Given the global recognition of the recent Terri Schiavo case where a Florida hospital carried out the task of withholding nutritional sustenance until Schiavo died of dehydration, one might readily surmise how the very essence of life and death has turned into a legal battleground where the critical component of bioethics is at the forefront of close scrutiny. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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as a way in which to aide a terminal or comatose patients demise. Given the global recognition of the recent Terri Schiavo case where a Florida hospital carried out
the task of withholding nutritional sustenance until Schiavo died of dehydration, one might readily surmise how the very essence of life and death has turned into a legal battleground where
the critical component of bioethics is at the forefront of close scrutiny (Leone, 1998). II. CURRENT CASES The recent Terri Schiavo situation
has once again sparked heated debate over the legality of euthanasia; most interesting of all, however, is the very state in which Schiavos nonvoluntary/euthanasia by omission occurred upholds laws against
exactly what transpired. Florida statutes 765.309, 458.326 and 782.08 all prohibit euthanasia, with the first statute explicitly stating that "nothing in this chapter shall be construed to condone, authorize,
or approve mercy killing or euthanasia, or to permit any affirmative or deliberate act of omission to end the life other than to permit the natural process of dying" (Kock
Brison, 2005). Within the past several years, the Supreme Court has had to grapple with many controversial issues and decide accordingly the best
way to appease both the law and the public; its decision about whether to include euthanasia within the boundaries of the law has been monumental and unprecedented (Darr, 1997).
The widely awaited decision allowing individual states to conclude for themselves whether to permit doctor-assisted suicides represented a much needed bend in the ever stringent law that heretofore did not
allow for an individual to dictate his or her own mortality. Chief Justice Rehnquist said the court has long recognized the difference between
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