Oregon

assisting suicide. In some cases, reception of undesirable termination of death was triggered. In Washington and Oregon, where physician-assisted suicide is legal, both states are failing to protect patients; no requirements are needed for patients to receive psychological evaluation or treatment prior to receiving lethal drugs. In 2010, only 1 out of 65 patients in Oregon who died as a result of physician-assisted suicide was referred for psychiatric or psychological therapy. In…

When it comes to Physician-Assisted Suicide/Death, there is no end to the misconceptions. Many believe that all patients are in immense pain and suffering. According to a 2010 Oregon Dept. of Health report, requesting patients’ concerns were loss of autonomy (93.8%), decreasing ability to participate in enjoyable activities (93.8%), and loss of dignity (78.5%) (Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act-2010 2010) as the top three. Another myth, is the belief that it takes several months. The reality is…

The Manifest Destiny was the name given to the Anglo-American (white) expansion into the west. The Manifest Destiny believed that white Americans were superior people who believed in God. Americans were to populate North America “sea to shining sea” and spread the religion of Christianity. Manifest destiny highlighted American’s confidences, they moved west for more land, it uplifted the American’s freedom and democracy. The United States uses the Manifest Destiny to start war with Mexico…

Congressmen Earl Blumenauer has always stood out amongst his peers. Even as a student at Lewis and Clark College he’d managed to lead a campaign effort that’d eventually lower the voting age in both Oregon State and at the national level. In 1972 he was elected Oregon’s Legislature where he served three terms, during which he also oversaw the House Education and Revenue Committee. And Mr. Blumenauer didn’t stop there. In 1978 he was elected to the Multnomah County Commission and eight years…

President Thomas Jefferson had an idea of expansion and once he convinced congress to allow him to send explores out west he did just that. Lewis and Clark headed the expedition that would lead them from the Louisiana Purchase to the Pacific Ocean. They played a vital role in the growth of Young America because of this expedition. America had many needs during the time of Lewis and Clarks expedition. The reason why Lewis and Clark went on this expedition not only because President Jefferson…

moved to Aloha. Once there, the family struggled to make a success out of their small business.“They would turn off the heat in the winter in Oregon,” Doan said. “I remember writing my name on the inside of the house, because the frost was on the inside. So money was a huge deal for us.”After attending Reed College and working as a neuroscience intern at the Oregon National Primate Research Center in Beaverton, Doan got a full scholarship to Johns Hopkins Medical School in Maryland.That’s where…

I start my trip from the location of frenzied outfitting activity throughout the 1840s and early 1850s, Independence (Missouri) was the jumping-off point for the Santa Fe and Oregon trails. The town includes several historic buildings, monuments and Independence Spring. As the place of convergence of early routes from the Mississippi Valley, this square was the last significant point of supply until the mid-1840s, when Westport also became an outfitting town. When I visited Independence in 1846,…

The Klamath National Forest covers roughly 1,700,000 acres between California and Oregon. Besides the usual recreational activities open to the public, the Forest "also helps to meet local and national needs for timber, gold, and other natural resources, explains the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service (FS). http://www.fs.usda.gov/main/klamath/about-forest What the federal agency fails to mention is that sometimes these "needs" for natural resources trump sound science and…

The story of Cody from the movie “How to Die in Oregon” made a drastic impact on me emotionally because I saw the pain of suffering in her eyes. Cody had to stop during an interview for the shocks of pain going through her body. Seeing her life day by day made me really understand her struggles as if…

According to the “Death with Dignity” Law in Oregon there are many obstacles that you must work through before being allowed to preform these acts. First and foremost, you must be eighteen years of age or older, you must be a resident of Oregon, you must have an incurable terminal illness that will, with out a doubt, kill you within six months or less, and lastly you must be able to make and…