In Canada, where suicide is not illegal, a patient named Gloria Taylor has what is often
called Lou Gehrig’s disease (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS).
What will be an ideal response?
She asked a court
for permission to be given a lethal dose of pills so she could commit suicide. The court
concluded that denying a disabled person a right to assisted suicide would violate her
rights to equality, life, liberty, and security. If suicide is legal, then should assisted suicide
also be necessarily legal? Would it also be ethical? Are there risks to society in
permitting assisted suicide in these situations? For example, might the elderly or
impoverished be pressured to request assisted suicide?
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A. trade should always be free and unrestricted B. each person owns the product of his/her labor C. property should be had in common by all people D. companies should be able to make a profit however they can
Of the following, which is a main challenge leveled at feminist theory?
a. a lack of systemization b. gender bias c. generalization d. lack of relativism
The presence of animism as a religious force in contemporary human life is evidenced by the modern movement known as Deep
a. Faith. b. Ritual. c. Ecology. d. Evolutionary.
In ancient Iranian language, Zarathustra means
a. pious one b. yellow camel c. yellow falcon d. firebird