Should Daniel James have been granted his request for an assisted death?

丹尼尔·詹姆斯请求获得安乐死这件事是否应该得到准许呢？

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It's vital, when discussing assisted death, that we distinguish between those disabled people who are terminally ill and those whose disability is not life-threatening.

当讨论安乐死时，我们必须严格区分哪些是患绝症的残疾人，哪些是没有生命危险的残疾人，这一点是至关重要的。

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Faced with the possibility of a lawsuit, bureaucrats at the state public health division have cast about for a semantic escape hatch , eventually settling on the phrase “physician-assisted death”.

由于有面临起诉的可能，所以州卫生部的官员找到了其它的安全词汇，最后他们决定起用“医师辅助死亡”(physician-assisted death) 这个说法。

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"Kelly's determination to speak out about why she wanted the choice of an assisted death made a huge impact, " she said.

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His case is being supported by the British Humanist Association, which wants to establish the right to doctor-assisted death in certain circumstances.

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They played both the unedited and edited versions of the tape where Kevorkian is shown having a weak and barely intelligible Youk sign consent forms for his assisted death.

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