Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
Session One: What Are Animals Like? 9:30 Marc D. Hauser: How Our Understanding of Animal Thought Might Constrain Our Thoughts about Animal Welfare Colin Allen: Animal Pain: How Similar Does It Need to Be? Panel Discussion Marc Hauser, Colin Allen, Craig Kinsley 12:00 Lunch, The Heilman Dining Center
Session Three: Animals and the Law The 10th Annual Austin Owen Lecture of The University of Richmond School of Law 3:45 Gary L. Francione: Sentience and Personhood Panel Discussion: Gary Francione, Jonathan Stubbs, Jane Smith
Session Four: Humans and Other Animals The Robins Pavilion of the Jepson Alumni Center 6:00 Reception, wine and hors doeuvres 6:30 Dinner 7:30 Gilbert Harman: Mind and Meat
Euthanasia
(not: youth in Asia)
Fact: Family members perform euthanasia. Only 3 physicians have ever been brought to trial for euthanasia in the U.S.
Holland
legalized euthanasia starting in the early 1970s
What do people in Holland think about this? 76% of Dutch people approve
What to do?
DNR Orders
In Oregon . . .
Since 1997 the rule in Oregon has been:
2 doctors must agree that patient has less than 6 months to live and is mentally competent to make the decision.
one in six such requests are being granted 20% of requests are from people who are clinically depressed
In Oregon . . .
November 6, 2001:
Attorney General Ashcroft authorizes federal legal action against any doctor who prescribes lethal drugs for terminally ill patients.
Given everything that the country is going through right now, with the country trying to respond to anthrax, why John Ashcroft picked this moment to inject this divisive issue into the public debate is just beyond me.
John Kitzhaber, Governor of Oregon