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- 6831: What is Euthanasia?
- What is Euthanasia? Euthanasia is defined by The American Heritage Dictionary as "the action of killing an individual for reasons considered to be merciful" (469). Here, killing is described as the physical action where one individual actively kills another. Euthanasia is tolerated in the ...
- 6832: The Right To Die
- ... Be Comfort and Dignity at the End of Your Life?" Family Circle, November 18, 1997, v110, n16, pp42-46. "Last Rights," The Economist, June 21, 1997, v343, n8022, pp21-24. Gletzer, Randi, "Life/Death Decisions," American Health For Women, March 1997, v16, n2, pp80-85. Kass, Leon R. and Nelson Lund, "Courting Death: Assisted Suicide, Doctors and the Law," Commentary, December 1996, v102, n6, pp17-28. Outerbridge, Daved E. and Alan ...
- 6833: Euthanasia
- ... fit to make these major decisions. A paper I read off the internet said "Contrary to the assumptions of many in the public, a scientific study of the people with terminal illness published in the American Journal of Psychiatry found that fewer than one in four expressed a wish to die, and all those who did had clinically diagnosable depression" (whats). Sometimes they have a family member make the decision for ...
- 6834: The Pitfall Of The Insensitive
- ... to buy their product.In almost all advertisements with the exception of Depends and Polydent, all the models are probably not over twenty-five. This may have worked in the 1930 s when, according the American Academy of Anti-Aging, the life expectancy was thirty-five. However, that is not the case today, when the average person living in America is predicted to live to 85. The media is entirely misrepresenting ...
- 6835: Euthanasia: The Right to Die
- ... in the recovery rooms and doctors must always be on the side of life (Battin, 1987, p. 24). They say, "Life is to be preserved and suffering was to be alleviated", but in fact the American Medical Association said, "Physicians dedicate their lives to the alleviation of suffering, to the enhancement and prolongation of life, and the destinies of humanity". They clearly state the "alleviation of suffering" before "the enhancement and ...
- 6836: The Case for Euthanasia: Should Physician-Assisted Suicide be Legalized?
- ... this article, California, Washington, Oregon, and Michigan were preparing or has already proposed general election initiatives which would permit aid-in-dying by physicians. The act of taking a life is a serious one. The American people are notoriously weary of it's implementation, as can be seen in the case of capital punishment. Although, active euthanasia is consensual, the paradox which lingers in the term "physician-assisted suicide" is difficult ...
- 6837: Why I Believe In Voluntary Euthanasia
- ... courts. Even if a hopelessly ill person is requesting assistance in dying for the most compassionate reasons, and the helper is acting from the most noble of motives, it remains a crime in the Anglo-American world. Punishments range from fines to fourteen years in prison. It is this catch- all prohibition which I and others wish to change. In a caring society, under the rule of law, we claim that ...
- 6838: Euthanasia
- ... lifecycle as evil. WORKS CITED Case, Thomas W. "National Review," Dying Made Easy. New York: Neal Bernards, Inc. November 4, 1991, pp. 25c26. Gorovitz, Samuel. Drawing the Line: Life, Death, and Ethical Choices in an American Hospital New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. Simmons, Paul D. Birth an d Death: Bioethical Decision Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1983. Tong, Rosemarie. "Current,"Euthanasia in the 1990's: Dying "Good Death. New York: Harper ...
- 6839: Euthanasia
- ... lifesaving techniques were thought to be impossible, a generation age. Ill patients throughtout the world are kept alive by the use of defribbrilators, respirators, pacemakers and other similar equipment. A study was done by the American Encephalograhic Soceity has concluded that when an EEG reading is what is known as "flat line" the person, is officially dead. What this actually means is that although there may not be any brain activity ...
- 6840: The Salem Witch Trials
- ... of ergot poisoning. The Salem witchcraft affair of 1692 was very peculiar, even for its time. In terms of the number of people accused and executed, it was the worst outbreak of witch persecution in American history, affecting not only Salem Village but eight other communities of Essex County, Massachusetts, as well as Fairfield County, Connecticut (Matossian). This also happened quite awhile after the last witchscare in Europe (about 50 years ...
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