Euthanasia

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Euthanasia

• By
• Tom Cahill
• Ashley Kokesh
• Kate Paolini
• Hatzel Menchaca
• Ryan Meredith

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• How do we determine at what point in life is
  dignity lost?
• How do we determine when a person loses the will
  to live?
• How do we determine who gets to decide when to
  end someones life?

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What is Euthanasia?What do you know about
Euthanasia?
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Passive Euthanasia
Deliberate intention of causing the patients
death.
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Active Euthanasia
Is taking specific steps to cause the patient's
death.
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Reading from the night before
CALIFORNIA ARTICLE
OREGON ARTICLE
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History of Euthanasia

• Doctor Kevorkian
• death counseling
• Attached his victims to machines and gave the
  patient responsibility to push the button to
  there death.
• Today he is serving out a prison term in Michigan.

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Geography

• Euthanasia allowed
• California
• Oregon
• Netherlands
• Belgium

• Euthanasia limited
• Holland
• Japan
• South Africa

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Oregon

• Death with Dignity Act
• Is the only state that allows euthanasia by
  allowing physician assisted suicides.

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California

• In 1992, California voters rejected Proposition
  161.
• The euthanasia law proposed was supposed to come
  up again before the assembly this year but it
  still has not received the
• majority needed.

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Well Known Examples

• Terri Schiavo
• Karen Anne Quinlan
• Nancy Cruzan

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Churchs Views

• The pontiff called on the officials to defend
  human life in all its stages, from the first
  moment of conception until natural death. --Pope
  Boniface XVI
• Euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of
  God, since it is the deliberate and morally
  unacceptable killing of a human person. --Pope
  John Paul II

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Churchs View

• Catholics believe Euthanasia is a great violation
  of the laws of God and can never be a morally
  good act.
• Thou shall not kill.

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Different Perspectives

• Pro-Life Advocates, Democrats for Life in America
  etc..
• Unitarian Universalists and Liberal Protestants

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

• California Law. www.californiaprolife.org/euthanas
  ia/euthanasia.html., p.1 5 October 2006.
• Catholic Church Declaration. www.euthanasia.com.,
  1-2. 7 October 2006.
• Chronology of Euthanasia. www.finalexit.org.,
  p.1-3. 7 October 2006.
• Karen Anne Quinlan. www.moffitt.usf.edu/pubs/ccj/v
  8n1/pdf/25.pdf., p.1. 5 October 2006.
• Nancy Cruzan. www.infoplease.com/biography/var/nan
  cycruzan.html., p.1. 5 October 2006.
• Pope Benedict stance on Euthanasia.www.lifenews.co
  m., p.1. 7 October 2006.
• Roman Catholic View on Euthanasia.www.aboutcatholo
  cism.com., p.1 7 October 2006.
• Types of Euthanasia.
• www.pregnantpause.org/euth/types.htm., p.1,
  5 October 2006.