Assisted Suicide: The Social Justice Perspective from #LPJ17
Assisted suicide has been on my mind ever since Washington DC took steps to legalize the act in 2016. The fact that it wasn’t on my radar...
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- Jan 25, 2017
- 5 min
Physician-Assisted Suicide and Therapeutic Ideation
Physician-assisted suicide proponents have been calling in favors to get in the media a lot recently, using sympathetic stories of...
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- Feb 6, 2016
- 6 min
Suicide By Another Name: The Destructive Reality of Euthanasia
The etymology of euthanasia, when translated from Greek, means “good death (1).” In our present debate on euthanasia in the United...
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- Oct 30, 2015
- 4 min
Influences on the Vulnerable: Abortion and Assisted Suicide Decisions Are Not So “Private”
What do assisted suicide and abortion have in common? So many things. Like the death of an individual at the hand of a physician. They...
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- Jun 9, 2015
- 2 min
Physician-Assisted Suicide: Contrary to Human Dignity, Promises of Medicine
Brittany Maynard, an attractive and vivacious 29-year-old, spent the last few months of her life campaigning for the cause of “death with...
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- Feb 13, 2014
- 4 min
Belgium's Child Euthanasia Laws
The Jahi McMath legal battle at Children’s Hospital Oakland over a brain-dead 13-year-old provides a stark contrast to a law passed...
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