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For Damien Hirst, a British post-modern artist born in Bristol, England on June 6 of 1965, unique art pieces like “The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living” (1991) and “With Dead Head”(1991), provoked controversy in the artistic audience(theartstory.org). It is through his unique art pieces that the overlooked concept of death is illustrated, making the audience reflect on their own lives. The creation of rather irregular artworks emerged from his interest in punk…

Terri Schiavo – The Right to Die In 1990 Terri Schiavo slipped into a permanent vegetative state. She remained in this vegetative state for 15 long years before she was allowed to die. Mrs. Schiavo’s husband, Michael Schiavo fought relentlessly to honor his wife’s wishes to never live like this. Michael was faced with opposition from Terri’s parents, religious and right to life organizations. The opposition caused the Schiavo case to be challenged and put in the public eye for all to see.…

who had already died naturally. Choosing a dignified death, Reinhardt asserted was a Constitutional Right under the 14th Amendment's Due Process Protection of Personal Liberties and the Principal of Privacy defined in the Court's abortion rulings. 'A competent terminally ill adult' should not be forced to endure 'a childlike state of helplessness, diapered, sedated, incompetent'" (Van Biema…

consent, and, therefore, cannot fulfill the voluntary aspect of the definition. Also, in order to be considered euthanasia, death must be the primary goal (van der Wal 1346). The definition inherently implies that at no point in time is the…

Gun Control in America The topic of American gun control has been debated throughout the country by everyone from elected officials to common citizens. Recently, the matter of how guns should be controlled in the United States has held a spotlight in the countries media as a result of an increase in the number of acts of mass gun violence. In recent years, many politicians have called for a plan resembling that of the gun reforms of Australia and Great Britain to be implemented in the United…

The Iceman better known as Otzi, was found buried within the ice of the Alps in the 1990’s. Ever since then people have tried to come up with theories for how Oetzi was murdered over 5,000 years ago. He lived at the end of the Ice age, and the beginning of the stone age. Otzi was five feet two inches tall and around forty to fifty years old. He had been a person of large significance during his time. Now in the 21st century we might have a clue as to why he died. Otzi died after retreating from…

Euthanasia can be defined as “the act or practice of killing hopelessly sick or injured individuals (as persons or domestic animals) in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy; also : the act or practice of allowing a hopelessly sick or injured patient to die by taking less than complete medical measures to prolong life—called also mercy killing,” (merriam-webster.com). As with any debate there are those that are for legalizing the mater and those that are against it. Those are against…

frequently used interchangeably, even amongst healthcare personnel. While aid-in-dying refers to the intentional acceleration of a terminally ill patient’s death, typically through patient administered pharmacological means, assisted suicide would apply to patients that are not terminally ill but deemed to be suffering at a level sufficient to warrant death as a reprieve.1 Euthanasia differs from these concepts in that another party, in our case a physician (or doctor outside the US),…

Should Euthanasia be a Supported Way of Death? Jack Kevorkian once said, “If you don 't have liberty and self-determination, you 've got nothing, that 's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you 're going to die when you 're suffering.” Many people like to think that euthanasia is inhumane because it is the killing of another person, this is simply not the case. Euthanasia should be supported because it relieves…

allowing terminally ill patients to suffer. For instance, Murray reports that Brittany Maynard has a terminal condition and doctors predict she will die a painful death; which causes more harm. Hence forcing the terminally ill to suffer they could die a painless death on their own terms. Thirdly, we could skip the controversy and let death doula’s fill in the gap and ensuring to oversee the end of life for the terminally ill patients. Therefore, the patients stated desires and request are…