Sentences with phrase «thinking about euthanasia»

Six weeks later, with inconclusive diagnostics and no improvement, the veterinary staff was reluctantly thinking about euthanasia.

«It's never too early to think about euthanasia,» he explained, urging that the subject be taught, along with voting rights and contraception, in high schools.

A common way to think about euthanasia is that a physician gives a lethal injection to the patient who wants to die.

Only when I told the vet my bill was already quite steep, he thought about euthanasia.

Sometimes your veterinarian can offer symptom management to alleviate pain and suffering, and sometimes, when quality of life is impacted, we need to think about euthanasia.

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Would legalizing euthanasia / PAS affect the way we think about mental and physical decline, about suffering, about the obligations of adult children to their parents or of how parents needing care feel toward their children?

I remember seeing Michael Haneke doing this Hollywood Reporter roundtable with Judd Apatow and thinking, «How'd he get there off the back of a film about euthanasia?»

«I felt really uncomfortable even thinking about discussing this with the class, since euthanasia and suicide are often considered taboo,» says Staaby.

«Unfortunately, many pet owners avoid thinking about the death of their pet until they are forced to make a decision about euthanasia, often with little to no forethought.

Ever since Elmer and Ammon Zimmerman, owners of E&A and A&J Kennels in Berks County, shot and killed their 80 dogs sometime between Thursday, July 24 and Tuesday, July 29, questions about the law that makes this cowardly and inhumane act «legal» have surfaced. Many have inquired as to why licensed kennel operators are permitted to legally shoot their breeding stock, believing that private citizens were prohibited from this same gruesome form of euthanasia, and if you think so too, think again.

Therefore, euthanasia is a final decision that needs to be thoroughly thought about and discussed.

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If you can not bear to leave your cat in the care of the veterinarian only, think about asking a friend or a parent who knows your cat to please stay with your cat during the euthanasia.

While the current trend in dog training seems very «positive» and forward thinking, these methods often end in the euthanasia of the when they fail and there is nothing positive about that.

There are basically two schools of thought about shelter euthanasia: people tend to believe either that society is to blame for the deaths and therefore society must be punished with restrictive laws or they believe in education, compromise, and reason to bring about the desired goal.

«I set our prices for euthanasia about a year ago, and haven't given it a lot of thought since,» said Richard Vetter, DVM, of Foothills Veterinary Hospital in Buckley, Washington.

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«There isn't a «right» answer for every situation, but having thought about one's preferences for these decisions in advance helps ensure that the most challenging process of euthanasia is as smooth as possible,» says Hafen.

I defy you to find more than a handful of extremely forward - thinking people who, when they laid eyes on Wolfenstein 3D, imagined that future FPS games would ever feature players infiltrating concentration camps, watching Nazi euthanasia programs, and finding the remains of human experimentation that made them think about Josef Mengele.

So pet insurance is really designed to prevent what is called «economic euthanasia,» where the cost is so high to save your pet's life, you might think about putting your pet down because you can't afford it.