persuasive speech 8/7/2013
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Persuasive SpeechCarol Ward
Physician Assisted Suicide
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Number of deaths from terminal illness - 2010
Heart disease: 597,689Cancer: 574,743Alzheimer's disease: 83,494Diabetes: 69,071
Center for Disease Control, Deaths and Mortality
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Definition:
Assisted suicide occurs when a physician provides a patient with the medical means and/or the medical knowledge to commit suicide.
American Medical Association, CEJA Report 8 – I-93, Physician-Assisted Suicide
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Death with Dignity Act
allows terminally-ill Oregonians to end their lives through the voluntary self-administration of lethal medications, expressly prescribed by a physician for that purpose.
Oregon Health Authority Public Health
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Oregon Health Authority Public Health
The law states that, in order to participate, a patient must be:
18 years of age or older, A resident of Oregon, Capable of making and
communicating health care decisions for him/herself, and
Diagnosed with a terminal illness that will lead to death within six (6) months.
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Oregon Health Authority Public Health
The following steps must be fulfilled:The patient must make two oral
requests to the attending physician, separated by at least 15 days;
The patient must provide a written request to the attending physician, signed in the presence of two witnesses, at least one of whom is not related to the patient;
The attending physician and a consulting physician must confirm the patient's diagnosis and prognosis;
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Oregon Health Authority Public Health
Steps continued:The attending physician and a
consulting physician must determine whether the patient is capable of making and communicating health care decisions for him/herself;
If either physician believes the patient's judgment is impaired by a psychiatric or psychological disorder (such as depression), the patient must be referred for a psychological examination;
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Oregon Health Authority Public Health
Steps continued:The attending physician must inform the
patient of feasible alternatives to the Act including comfort care, hospice care, and pain control;
The attending physician must request, but may not require, the patient to notify their next-of-kin of the prescription request.
A patient can rescind a request at any time and in any manner.
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“It leads down a slippery slope to indiscriminate killing of the ill, weak, and disabled, among
others.”
University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, Topics : Physician-Assisted Suicide
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“Requests for death are induced by poor care and/or
unrecognized psychological needs.”
University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, Topics : Physician-Assisted Suicide
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“The practice damages physicians by desensitizing
them to human needs.”
University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, Topics : Physician-Assisted Suicide
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ABC News, Advocates for Assisted Dying Deflated by Massachusetts Defeat, November 12, 2012
Jim and Margie Carberry
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New York Times, How the ‘Death With Dignity’ Initiative Failed in Massachusetts, December 6, 2012
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Compassion & Choices,http://www.compassionandchoices.org
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“There is a certain right by which we may deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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