Luo Jing Zeng Ningxiang Incurable disease Unbearable pain Exclusive aim Sober request Professional executor Correctly method C onditions Applying to the court Making diagnoses in writing ID: 777816
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Living Wills
Chen Yin
Luo
Jing
Zeng
Ningxiang
Incurable diseaseUnbearable pain
Exclusive aim
Sober requestProfessional executorCorrectly method
C
onditions
Slide3Applying to the courtMaking diagnoses in writing
Coming to an agreement
Finishing the second waiting periodCompleting the plan
Procedure
Slide4Injection of cyanide(氰化物
)
Oral administration of hypnotics(安眠药)Injection of coagulant(
凝血剂
)
M
ethods
Slide5Choice or dutyKeep alive or reduce painful
About human rights, etc…
C
ontroversy
Slide6Case1: Wen Yuzhang
Accused of:
Removing life support machine from his unconscious wife
Argument:
D.A.→ intentional homicide
Defense→ assisting suicide
Judgement:
A lighter punishment
3 years in prison
Slide7Love v.s. Law
Love→ Willing to do what his wife wanted
Law→ The same as euthanasia→ Crime
Ethics
v.s
. Science
Ethics→ love and help between each other
Science→ incurable→ waste of time and money
Slide8Case2: Wang Xianmei
Suffered from: ALS
FYI: ALS(渐冻人症,肌萎缩侧索硬化症) patients will become unable to move talk, eat or breath gradually.
Living wills:
“Please, let me die!”
Result:
her family and doctors follow her living wills
Slide9Case3:A Survey
Slide10Only a few people know about living wills
Or try to make it legal.
http://www.xzyzy.com
Slide11abroad
Slide122010: End of Life Assistance Bill rejected by Scottish Parliament
Slide13Margo Macdonald
In 2002 she stated that she had
Parkinson's Disease
In December 2009
,
she put
forward a bill in the Scottish Parliament to
legalise
assisted suicide.
A
llowed
people whose lives become intolerable through a progressive degenerative condition, a trauma or terminal illness to seek a doctor's help in dying.
Slide14The End of Life Assistance Bill was defeated by 85 votes to 16 with two abstentions.
Slide15The doctor
If doctors are
authorised
, by law, to kill or help kill, they are taking on an additional role which we believe is alien to the one of care giver and healer.
Slide16Euthanasia
good-death
eu
= good,
thanatos
= death
=
Slide17right
to
die
duty to die
Slide18Life is so beautiful!
Live with quality
Die with dignity
Slide19The End
Thank you for listening