Euthanasia Vroust - ANGLAIS CPGE

had persuaded another to commit suicide. -‐1935:Dr Harold Blazer charged with killing his daughter suffering from meningitis. -‐1985: Karen Ann Quinlan died ...
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Hippocrate’s  laws  of  medicine   Hereford  Council  prohibited  any  form  of  suicide  

United  States  

Roger  Bacon  said  that  one  day  medicine   could  permit  us  to  live  eternally    

1828  :  a  New  York  statute  outlawed   assisting  suicide  or  any  way  to  help  it     Example  of  euthanasia  case  :  

United   Kingdom  

1935  :  some  London  Doctors  started  the   first  Voluntary  Euthanasia  Society   following  by  the  creation  of  a  similar   association  in  US  on  1938    

-­‐   1872  :   a   prisoner   was   tried   for   murder   to   had  persuaded  another  to  commit  suicide  

1961  :  suicide  is  «  decriminilazed  »  

-­‐1935:Dr   Harold   Blazer   charged   with   killing   his  daughter  suffering  from  meningitis    

Example  of  euthanasia:    

-­‐1985:   Karen   Ann   Quinlan   died   after   ten   years   of   suffering   and   the   fight   of   his   family   for  euthanasia     -­‐1990:   death   of   Nancy   Cruzan   after   his   17   years   artificially   life.   Her   family   fought   to   cut  short  her  sufferings       1998:  Dr  Kevorkian  euthanasia  business  is     stopped  and  he  is  arrested  by  law.  He  took    years  of  jail       1994  and  1997:  Oregon  voters  approved   r   the  «  Death  with  Dignity  Act  »       1997  to  2004:  Republicans,  in  power,  took   part  against  euthanasia  

-­‐1989:  the  parents  of  Anthony  Bland   petitioned  the  court  to  sanction  the   withdrawal  of  the  feeding  system  for   their  son   -­‐2004:  the  High  Court  authorized  doctors   to  stop  resuscitating  an  11  month-­‐old   baby  suffered  of  pulmonary  and  cardiac   defect      2002  :  Diane  Pretty,  a  woman  who  asked   to     the  European  Court  of  Human  Rights   the  right  to  die  because  she  suffered   from  a  nervous  degenerative  disorder.   She  lost  her  fight  and  she  died  10  days   after  this  decision.   Debbie  Purdy  a  famous  journalist   confined  in  a  wheelchair  because  of  a   multiple  of  sclerosis  fights  and  supports   the  euthanasia  project.   th

Following  to  the  Purdy’s  case,  on  July  30 ,   2009,    The  House  of  Lords  delivered  a  scheme   on  the  prosecution  of  anyone  helping   another  to  end  their  life.  

1st  December,  2010  :  rejection  of  the  End  of   Life  Choice  Bill  by  the  Scottish  MP’s