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- Disputing Suicide Advocacy for the Sickly: A Model Essay in Developmental English Textbooks, by JD Meyer"The Right to Die," is the argument for the suicide by the sickly, focusing on the case of a leading Protestant theologian, Importantly, the author of the article, Norman Cousins, found an unorthodox way to recover from his horrible illness.
- The Right to Die: It's My ChoiceThe passion for and against suicide had its ebbs and flows over time, where it has became a controversial topic and is still being debated today.
- The Right to Die - You Don't Know Jack: Kevorkian and the Right to Die DebateHow can we allow commerce to over-ride compassion? People deserve the right to choose to die, and physicians should be able to assist them with this service. Movie "You don't know Jack" sparks deep emotions.
- The Right to DieThe brewing controversy over the assisted suicides pits religious thugs, law enforcement and healthcare muckity-mucks against seniors, families and the terminally ill for whom the right to die is a real issue and not merely theological rigmarole.
- Do We Really Want the Right to Die?I wonder if the right to die is something we really want? I always shudder a bit when politicians start talking about giving me more rights. Rights have a funny way of morphing into obligations.
- Questioning the Right to DieWe live in a world that doesn't recognize the right to die. Should one be allowed to commit the ultimate act of suicide? Who's right is it anyway?
- The Irreconcilability of a "Right to Die" with the Right to LifeThis essay makes the ethical case for why the right to live and the "right to die" are mutually incompatible. One leads to individual sanctity and sovereignty and the other -- to somebody else deciding whether one's life is or is not worth living.
- Poll: Americans Still Split in Right-to-Die DebateWith Jack Kevorkian's recent release from an 8-year prison sentence for second degree murder by poisoning a man with Lou Gehrig's diesase, the right-to-die has become a popular topic once again in the United States.
- Analyzing the Right to Die MovementAn article analyzing the right to die movement
The Right to Die? Ethical and Legal Issues Surrounding Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted SuicideEuthanasia and all forms of a patient's right to terminate his or her life, or have his or her life terminated by another in the interest of ending suffering, are considered in the argument about a patient's "Right to Die."- Assisted Suicide and the Right to DieWhen the average American thinks of assisted suicide, the first thing that comes to mind is likely the infamous Dr. Jack Kevorkian, dubbed the Angel of Death, who was imprisoned in 1999 for helping some terminally ill people to end their lives. But despit
- When the Right to Die Becomes the Duty to DieBarbara Wagner of Springfield Oregon was denied cancer treatment by insurance but offered a death sentence instead. Karla takes a look.
- Dr. Jack Kevorkian and the Right to Die DebateDr. Jack Kevorkian and the right to die debate
- Right to Die or Population Control of an Aging AmericaWas Kevorkian a forerunner of the death clinics in America? Did Terri Schiavo serve as a test case to judge America's feelings toward euthanasia?
- Assisted Suicide and the Evolution of Law and TechnologyThis paper evalutes the coevolution of the medical and legal worlds as shown through Melvin Urofsky's book on the legal history of assisted suicide, Lethal Judgments.