1. Title Page Euthanasia Power Point Presentation Kip D. Klingman Southern Nazarene University Module 13 – Death, Grief, and Loss August 20, 2009 Professor: Mary Lou Bates

3. Assisted Suicide

4. Self-Murder

5. Freedom of Choice

6. Ethical

7. Moral

8. Religion

10. What is euthanasia? Euthanasia A doctor intentionally killing a person by the administration of drugs, at that person’s voluntary and competent request. Physician-assisted suicide A doctor intentionally helping a person to commit suicide by providing drugs for self-administration, at that person’s voluntary and competent request. (Palliative Medicine 2003)

11. Palliative Sedation vs. Euthanasia Palliative Sedation Injection of medication to ease suffering without interfering in the outcome Euthanasia Sedation Injection of medication for the purpose of killing

12. Legal Snapshot Netherlands only country where legal The state of Oregon is only American City where legal

13. What Euthanasia is Not Passive Euthanasia/Medicalized Killing Withdrawal or withholding ‘futile’ treatment Terminal sedation the use of sedative medication to relieve intolerable suffering in the last days of life For reality purposes there can be no such thing as passive euthanasia. Passive euthanasia is determined by a medical professional and thus not agreed upon voluntarily by a competent person . (Palliative Medicine)

14. Quick Facts Euthanasia in the Netherlands 1,000 people killed without their knowledge or consent 4,900 people given lethal doses of morphine without their consent (Rhoda Olkin) Jack Kevorkianaka Dr. Death Out of Forty-seven Cases 31.1% Terminal 73.9% Reported pain 36% Depressed 66% Disabled 90% Feared dependency 68.1% Women (Rhoda Olkin)

16. Former teacher and mother of 3 had a rare form of cancer (esthesioneuroblastoma)(Fox News)

17. Face of Hope & Purpose The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005) Jennifer Carpenter (The Washington Post) Anneliese MichelThe Real Emily Rose (MovieOrigins.com, CTF Media)

18. Legalizing Euthanasia If euthanasia is legalized Pressure on vulnerable people (depressed, Underdevelopment or devaluation of palliative care Conflict between legal requirements and the personal and professional values of physicians and other healthcare professionals Widening of the clinical criteria to include other groups in society Increase in the incidence of nonvoluntary and involuntary medicalized killing Killing to become accepted within society

19. References Give Me Liberty at My Death Photohttp://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-01-17-scotus-suicide_x.htm EAPC Ethics Task Force http://ezproxy.snu.edu:2055/login.aspx?direct=true&db=psyh&AN=2003-99025-004&site=ehost-live Why I Changed My Mind About Physician-Assisted Suicide: How Stanford University Made a Radical Out of Me.http://ezproxy.snu.edu:2055/login.aspx?direct=true&db=psyh&AN=2005-06850-010&site=ehost-live Fox News http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,339709,00.html The Washington Posthttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/02/AR2005090200559.html ChasingtheFrog.comhttp://www.chasingthefrog.com/reelfaces/emilyrose.php