https://padlet.com/jfinegold/mackgbdrb8gp Should assisted suicide be legalized? en-us 2017-04-26 13:58:22 UTC 2024-04-17 06:27:56 UTC hello@padlet.com http://cliparts.co/cliparts/6ir/58R/6ir58Rb5T.png jfinegold https://padlet.com/jfinegold/mackgbdrb8gp/wish/168375201 Assisted Suicide is a topic not typically found in a book about a utopia, but Lois Lowry gives readers "Release." A form of suicide preformed by an injection. Please remember that the right is support and the left is opposition. Anything in the middle is neutral.]]> 2017-04-26 14:03:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jfinegold/mackgbdrb8gp/wish/168375201 jfinegold https://padlet.com/jfinegold/mackgbdrb8gp/wish/168378939 Dr. William Toffler, a distinguished professor of family medicine at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Ore., testified before Congress in 2015 about abuses of the law and about the state health department's negligence. "There is a shroud of secrecy enveloping the practice," he said. "Doctors engaging in this practice are required by state law to fabricate the cause of death stating that the cause is 'natural' rather than suicide."]]> 2017-04-26 14:12:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jfinegold/mackgbdrb8gp/wish/168378939 jfinegold https://padlet.com/jfinegold/mackgbdrb8gp/wish/168380958  The law is intended to help terminally ill patients avoid suffering. When he signed the bill into law in October, Gov. Jerry Brown wrote that he believed it would be a comfort to have this option if he were "dying in prolonged and excruciating pain."  More than three-fourths of Californians were in favor of such a law, including 82% of Democrats and 67% of Republicans, according to a poll conducted last year by the Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley. ]]> 2017-04-26 14:17:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jfinegold/mackgbdrb8gp/wish/168380958 jfinegold https://padlet.com/jfinegold/mackgbdrb8gp/wish/168634893 Only 25% of those who died from lethal medication said that they were worried about pain control. More common reasons for choosing aid-in-dying were loss of autonomy (92%), being less able to engage in activities that made life enjoyable (90%) and burdening family or caregivers (41%). ]]> 2017-04-27 13:55:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jfinegold/mackgbdrb8gp/wish/168634893 jfinegold https://padlet.com/jfinegold/mackgbdrb8gp/wish/168637052 2017-04-27 14:02:00 UTC https://padlet.com/jfinegold/mackgbdrb8gp/wish/168637052 jfinegold https://padlet.com/jfinegold/mackgbdrb8gp/wish/168638038 2017-04-27 14:05:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jfinegold/mackgbdrb8gp/wish/168638038 jfinegold https://padlet.com/jfinegold/mackgbdrb8gp/wish/168639156 In The Giver by Lois Lowry, "Release" is heavily supported by most of the people in the community. Release would translate into real life as Assisted Suicide. One example of this is on page 143, it is seen that Jonas begins to oppose Release.]]> 2017-04-27 14:09:00 UTC https://padlet.com/jfinegold/mackgbdrb8gp/wish/168639156 jfinegold https://padlet.com/jfinegold/mackgbdrb8gp/wish/168640458 Jonas is over here, as he opposes Release upon seeing the twin released by his father, and Rosemary's release further along.]]> 2017-04-27 14:13:07 UTC https://padlet.com/jfinegold/mackgbdrb8gp/wish/168640458 jfinegold https://padlet.com/jfinegold/mackgbdrb8gp/wish/168640973 The rest of the community is placed over here, because most of them don't know what Release is, allowing for forced agreement]]> 2017-04-27 14:14:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jfinegold/mackgbdrb8gp/wish/168640973 jfinegold https://padlet.com/jfinegold/mackgbdrb8gp/wish/168642298 2017-04-27 14:18:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jfinegold/mackgbdrb8gp/wish/168642298 jfinegold https://padlet.com/jfinegold/mackgbdrb8gp/wish/168642452 2017-04-27 14:18:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jfinegold/mackgbdrb8gp/wish/168642452 jfinegold https://padlet.com/jfinegold/mackgbdrb8gp/wish/168881955 2017-04-28 13:58:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jfinegold/mackgbdrb8gp/wish/168881955 jfinegold https://padlet.com/jfinegold/mackgbdrb8gp/wish/168885057 2017-04-28 14:09:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jfinegold/mackgbdrb8gp/wish/168885057 jfinegold https://padlet.com/jfinegold/mackgbdrb8gp/wish/168886731 2017-04-28 14:14:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jfinegold/mackgbdrb8gp/wish/168886731 jfinegold https://padlet.com/jfinegold/mackgbdrb8gp/wish/168887384 2017-04-28 14:17:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jfinegold/mackgbdrb8gp/wish/168887384 jfinegold https://padlet.com/jfinegold/mackgbdrb8gp/wish/168887859 2017-04-28 14:18:38 UTC https://padlet.com/jfinegold/mackgbdrb8gp/wish/168887859 jfinegold https://padlet.com/jfinegold/mackgbdrb8gp/wish/168892653 2017-04-28 14:35:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jfinegold/mackgbdrb8gp/wish/168892653 jfinegold https://padlet.com/jfinegold/mackgbdrb8gp/wish/168896909 Imagine you're in a restaurant and a woman at the next table stops breathing or her heart stops beating. You would immediately give her CPR, right? And if you don't know how, you'd frantically search for someone nearby who does. The idea of denying the woman CPR would be monstrous. It might even be described as murder. Yet for patients near the end of life the ethical choices are often reversed. Thousands of patients both verbally and in writing request "do not resuscitate" designations.]]> 2017-04-28 14:50:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jfinegold/mackgbdrb8gp/wish/168896909 jfinegold https://padlet.com/jfinegold/mackgbdrb8gp/wish/168897604  Kevin Diaz, national director of legal advocacy for Compassion & Choices, which advocates for aid in dying, said he didn't think the suit would move forward. "I just don't understand exactly what their assertions are, given that this legislation treats all people ... no matter what their condition, equally, and is respectful of their end-of-life wishes," Diaz said. A hearing for a preliminary injunction has been set for the end of the month. 

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- Last resort if pain is immense
- More medicine available for healthier patients]]> 2017-05-01 13:54:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jfinegold/mackgbdrb8gp/wish/169168745 jfinegold https://padlet.com/jfinegold/mackgbdrb8gp/wish/169169255 - More deaths
- Possible PTSD for family
- Some doctors seen as murderers ]]> 2017-05-01 13:56:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jfinegold/mackgbdrb8gp/wish/169169255