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naomi suissa

Active euthanasia versus passive euthanasia - India News - IBNLive - 0 views

  • You cannot prosecute someone for failing to save a life
    • naomi suissa
       
      Ce fait, selon moi, est très important, fort et intéressant en discutant l'euthanasie passive car il a un lien à l'acte de sauver une vie.
  • Active euthanasia entails the use of lethal substances or forces to kill a person such as with lethal injection given to a person with terminal cancer who is in terrible agony. Passive euthanasia entails withholding of medical treatment for continuance of life
  • Voluntary euthanasia is where the consent is taken from the patient, whereas non voluntary euthanasia is where the consent is unavailable
    • naomi suissa
       
      Avec les définitions données par ce site, nous pouvons plus facilement comprendre le sujet et trouver de très bonnes exemples. La bonne compréhension nous donne aussi l'opportunité d'utiliser la logique de la définition comme un point en se défendant!
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  • in active euthanasia, something is done to end the patient's life' while in passive euthanasia, something is not done that would have preserved the patient's life.
    • naomi suissa
       
      Cette phrase nous montre une distinction très claire entre l'euthanasie active et passive; ce qui est très important pour bien se défendre durant un débat!
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    Ce site est parfait pour bien comprendre les faits de base du sujet de l'euthanasie. C'est un site qui nous explique très bien les différents types d'euthanasie et nous donne aussi des exemples!
naomi suissa

Making a Case for Euthanasia - TIME - 0 views

  • The 52- year-old Dijon schoolteacher suffers from a rare disease that has left her disfigured by facial tumors, which will also damage her brain over time and eventually kill her.
    • naomi suissa
       
      Pour moi, les mots clés dans cette citation son "eventually kill her". Elles montrent la sévérité du cas de Chantal Sebire et nous aide a comprendre pourquoi elle demande que la loi de l'euthanasie soit ré-évaluée.
  • Her death will come, they say, after a long coma that will reduce her to being nothing but an inanimate burden on her family.
    • naomi suissa
       
      Est-ce que c'est meilleure de la laisser vivre en souffrant au point qu'elle sera considérée comme fardeau inanimé, ou respecter ses vœux de mourir avec de la paix et de la dignité?
  • "when I hear debates on euthanasia, I tell myself that while I respect the principles, the convictions, at the bottom of my heart I still say there are limits to the suffering that can be imposed on a human."
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  • "It's hard for my children to imagine me going away there," Sebire explains, "but I can't take this anymore."
    • naomi suissa
       
      Elle est une mère de 3 enfants et elle veut quand même être libérée de sa vie. Pourquoi devrait-on la forcer de vivre avec ses circonstances?
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    Chantal Sebire- une femme de 52 ans qui souffre d'une maladie rare esthioneuroblastoma. Elle veut que la loi contre l'euthanasie soit ré-évaluée dans son cas. Cette article nous aide à comprendre sa vie dure et sa perspective sur sa situation.
naomi suissa

The Pursuit Of Happiness - Where Can I Find Real Happiness? - 1 views

  • The pursuit of happiness is instictive for most human beings.
    • naomi suissa
       
      Cela est intéressant car il nous montre que c'est normal que la plupart d'entre nous attend pour le bonheur!
  • happiness is our normal condition.
  • I think a better description for unhappiness should be: self-ignorance.
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  • to be truly happy requires something outside your current way of thinking
  • The pursuit of happiness requires that you first accept that your mind-defined-you is just a very small expression the real you. The real you has practically unlimited power and wisdom.
  • The thing is, most people pretend to be happy when they are not. Some can't accept that there is no pursuit of happiness
    • naomi suissa
       
      Je crois que cet article est très utile pour mon débat. Il me donne plusieurs points intéressants qui me laisse penser à la vraie définition de la poursuite du bonheur.
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    Who am I? -- This article really helps us understand happiness and unhappiness.
naomi suissa

Can the Pursuit of Happiness Make You Unhappy? « peer-reviewed by my neurons - 0 views

  • paradoxical effects
    • naomi suissa
       
      Those who expect to reach a certain level of happiness rarely reach that goal because this level of happiness often has standards that are much too high
  • failed to achieve your goal of being happy
  • negative effects of valuing happiness are most likely to occur in situations where people feel they should be happy
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  • The researchers hypothesized that although there would be no differences among those who watched the sad clip, the participants watching the happy clip who valued happiness would be less happy than those who did not value happiness. In the end, this is exactly what happened.
    • naomi suissa
       
      After this study, the researchers came to the exact conclusion that they were expecting!!
    • naomi suissa
       
      I consider this site useful because the author is elaborating on my side of the debate and giving me hints on how I could convince my opponent that I truly believe that the pursuit of happiness makes you unhappy 
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    Article by Eric Horow; his perspective of the pursuit of happiness
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