Do not resuscitate

The parents of a premature severely disabled girl were informed that they believed any further treatment would be “futile” and recommended withdrawing care. The doctors placed a “do not resuscitate sign” above her cot in case she had breathing difficulties. The parents disagreed with the medical opinion and applied to the court for an order. The court found that on balancing the notion of “best interest”, it would be lawful for the doctors…

Euthanasia: Live or Let Die? The world today, as advanced as it may seem, is filled with suffering. There are multiple diseases that are incurable and cause pain, such as cancer or AIDS. People who were once filled with life are reduced to staying in a hospital bed twenty-four hours a day. The evolution of medicinal practices is often not enough to cure or relieve the pain for these people. Euthanasia is simply “the act or practice of killing hopelessly sick or injured individuals (as persons…

gravely ill, is not immediately threatened with death (Frey 323). She simply does not want to live out the life to which illness has condemned her (Frey 323). Some people tend to think that euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide are the same, but do not get these two words mixed up. Today, the mention of euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide is guaranteed to elicit a reaction from most people (McDougall et al. 2). There are many differences between these two practices of taking a life.…

“The theatre must give us everything that is in crime, love, war, or madness, if it wants to recover its necessity” (85). “Practically speaking, we want to resuscitate an idea of total spectacle by which the theatre would recover from the cinema, the music hall, the circus, and from life itself what has always belonged to it” (86). “It is a matter of knowing whether now, in Paris, before the cataclysms which…

According to Arnold and Leavis, conservative theorists with elitist conceptions of culture, low (popular) culture is dull entertainment to be enjoyed by uneducated and uncritical “low-brow” hoards. For the past three decades pop music has been a part of a large cultural resistance to feminism, as there are certain songs that are in sync with feminist goals and objectives. As Jones suggests, “some talented artists, such as Beyoncé, break through this onslaught of problematic tunes by producing…

I come from a divorced family. I have hateful parents, not towards me, but towards each other. I can’t stand it, the way they look at each other, the way they talk or act towards each other just irks me. I don’t blame my mother for ditching my father, who could? He was a dirty old, good-for-nothing, scumbag. Since he has left us, he hasn’t even given my mother and I a second thought. Since the divorce, I usually go to my father’s apartment on the weekend. The only reason I visit him is because…

despite having actually died in the last season – even there, there was always a sense that he’d somehow overcome even death. Here, there’s a sense that if he goes down, that’s it – it’s final. Of course, this might have something to do with the DNR (Do Not Resuscitate – or Resurrect, as it were) order he gave Melisandre prior to the battle, but the stakes here seem so much more permanent than anything he’s faced…

Canada, like many other countries, embraces a liberal democracy social system, putting an importance on the promotion of civil liberty, equality, and community. Our country is widely viewed as an exemplar of liberalism, which strongly emphasizes choice and autonomy as fundamental principles for each individual. The state promotes the ideology that an individual’s life belongs only to them, that each individual has the right to their own means and ends, along with the right to make decisions,…

The controversial topic of assisted suicide is often considered when dealing with an inoperable or incurable cancer, such as brain or lung cancer. The suffering of these cancers is excruciating and the waiting for death to take away their pain feels like an eternity. Assisted suicide provides an option to illnesses where death is the inevitable outcome. For example, lung cancer eats away at a person’s lungs making it extremely hard or nearly impossible to breath, making each breath feel like it…

Adult Hunt 2 Book 2 Holodeck Maze Games Unpublished work Copyright 2015 Roselinda Johnson, Ed.D. Adult Hunt 2 Finally, all the 50 contestants and their parents had arrived and were in their appointed room assignments. I am sure that all the technical equipment and luxury of their surroundings impressed them all. The parents did not know what was in store for them because they were not given all the information that the contestants were given. After the time for the Holodeck…