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(Death with Dignity Legislation)
Details of the Project
OUTLINE TITLE
I)
Introduction.
A. History on the Death with Dignity legislation and what it actually
means.
1)
Definition of terminal illness (Terminal Illness n.d.)
2)
Statistics of usage (Death with Dignity 2015)
3) Measures to prevent patients abusing the law (Cobbs et al 2015).
4)
Oregon was a pioneer in the fight for Death with Dignity since it
accepted it into law on November 8, 1994 (Reuter 2015).
5)
Other states that have followed suit since then are Washington,
Montana, and Vermont (Reuter 2015).
a)
To date there are currently eleven states that are considering the
Death with Dignity legislation during the current session (Korchnak,
n.d.).
B. Who was Brittany Maynard and what she did to start this much
needed conversation (Egan et al 2014).
1) Ethics of allowing someone to choose the day they will die.
a) The reasons that some people may choose this method to end
their life.
b) The reasons that so many people oppose this method of physician
assisted suicide.
II)
The reasons that every state should pass this legislation.
A. How the terminally ill patient would benefit from using this
legislation.
1) Challenges of the acceptance of the Death with Dignity Act
(Stutsman 2015).
a) Finding a Physician and a second opinion.
b) Pharmacies rights and pricing.