Euthanasia

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Platon Jugendforum 2009 WS 3 Alexander,
Christina, Verena, Alica, Kilian, Judith,
Kristina, Cara, Isabel
Euthanasia
Should there be a Right to Die?
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Euthanasia in Europe is legal in The
Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland

• And in
• Thailand
• Washington
• Oregon

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Rights and Regulations

• GERMANY illegal
• THE NETHERLANDS legal
• SWITZERLAND legal
• Dignitas House where you can go to die
• get member 125
• annual membership fees 50
• costs for execution 5.900
• LUXEMBOURG and BELGIUM legal, if two doctors
  ensure the terminal illness

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Human Life Right or Duty?

• Human life is sacred all men must recognize
  that fact.
• Pope John XXIII
• If you won't be better tomorrow than you were
  today, then what do you need tomorrow for?
• Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav

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Chantal Sébire 2008
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What is cheaper? Life (In Hospital) or Death?

• Drugs used in assisted suicide cost only about
  40, but it could take 40,000 to treat a patient
  properly so that they dont want the choice of
  assisted suicide.
• Wesley Smith in National Review

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R.I.P.