Freedom To Die

Author : Derek Humphrey,Mary Clement
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781429929660

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Freedom to Die by Derek Humphrey,Mary Clement Pdf

The strength of the right-to-die movement was underscored as early as 1991, when Derek Humphry published Final Exit, the movement's call to arms that inspired literally hundreds of thousands of Americans who wished to understand the concepts of assisted suicide and the right to die with dignity. Now Humphry has joined forces with attorney Mary Clement to write Freedom to Die, which places this civil rights story within the framework of American social history. More than a chronology of the movement, this book explores the inner motivations of an entire society. Reaching back to the years just after World War II, Freedom to Die explores the roots of the movement and answers the question: Why now, at the end of the twentieth century, has the right-to-die movement become part of the mainstream debate? In a reasoned voice, which stands out dramatically amid the vituperative clamoring of the religious right, the authors examine the potential dangers of assisted suicide - suggesting ways to avert the negative consequences of legalization - even as they argue why it should be legalized.

Author : Olive Ruth Russell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Euthanasia
ISBN : IND:30000047381862

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Freedom to Die by Olive Ruth Russell Pdf

Author : Olive Ruth Russell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Euthanasia
ISBN : UOM:39015000298698

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Freedom to Die by Olive Ruth Russell Pdf

Cites medical technological developments and the humanistic philosophy in advocating the changing of existing legal, ethical, and religious standards pertaining to euthanasia and outlining arguments for and against its legalization.

Author : Koigi Wa Wamwere
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003-11-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 158322615X

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I Refuse to Die by Koigi Wa Wamwere Pdf

An extraordinary account of how a laborer's son rose to challenge the power of despots, I Refuse to Die is both the autobiography of one gifted man who rose above the horrors of colonization, and an uncensored history of modern Kenya. The book is infused with the freedom songs of the Kenyan people, as well as dream prophecy and folk tales that are part of Kenya's rich storytelling tradition. Tracing the roots of the Mau Mau rebellion, wa Wamwere follows the evolution and degeneration of Jomo Kenyatta and the rise of Daniel arap Moi. In 1979, wa Wamwere won a seat in the parliament, where he represented the economically depressed Nakuru district for three years. An outspoken activist and journalist, wa Wamwere was framed and detained on three separate instances, spending thirteen years in prison, where he was tortured but not broken. His mother and others led a hunger strike to free him and fellow political prisoners. Their efforts brought about a show trial at which Koigi was sentenced to four more years in prison and "six strokes of the cane," and escaped Kenya—and probably execution—only through the exertions of human rights groups and the government of Norway.

Author : Bronnie Ware
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781401956011

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Top Five Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware Pdf

Revised edition of the best-selling memoir that has been read by over a million people worldwide with translations in 29 languages. After too many years of unfulfilling work, Bronnie Ware began searching for a job with heart. Despite having no formal qualifications or previous experience in the field, she found herself working in palliative care. During the time she spent tending to those who were dying, Bronnie's life was transformed. Later, she wrote an Internet blog post, outlining the most common regrets that the people she had cared for had expressed. The post gained so much momentum that it was viewed by more than three million readers worldwide in its first year. At the request of many, Bronnie subsequently wrote a book, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, to share her story. Bronnie has had a colourful and diverse life. By applying the lessons of those nearing their death to her own life, she developed an understanding that it is possible for everyone, if we make the right choices, to die with peace of mind. In this revised edition of the best-selling memoir that has been read by over a million people worldwide, with translations in 29 languages, Bronnie expresses how significant these regrets are and how we can positively address these issues while we still have the time. The Top Five Regrets of the Dying gives hope for a better world. It is a courageous, life-changing book that will leave you feeling more compassionate and inspired to live the life you are truly here to live.

Author : Anurupa Cinar
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781426974984

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Burning for Freedom by Anurupa Cinar Pdf

This is the story of one man ́s-Vinayak Damodar Savarkar ́s- sacrifice of his name, fame, comfort, and family life in the fifty years of his quest for the freedom of his beloved motherland, India. It is the story of politics and power plays. Exposed here is the reality that lies behind the mask of Truth; exposed are the shenanigans of Mahatma Gandhi in the Freedom Movement of India. The reality is a far cry from the rosy picture presented by what passes as history. Here, Savarkar ́s life is creatively intertwined with a fictional character, Keshav Wadkar, taking the reader from the horrors of the Cellular Jail in 1913 to the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948. Savarkar fought to preserve the integrity of India, to reinstate the honor of his motherland without ripping her heart out. For the emancipation of his beloved country and people, he suffered agonies and gross injustices at the hands of the British government, Gandhi-Nehru-led Indian National Congress, and the successive Governments of free India. That his contribution to India should be negated to bolster the political aspirations of any political party is unacceptable. The truth cannot-and shall not-be hidden!

Author : Jim Downs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199908783

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Sick from Freedom by Jim Downs Pdf

Bondspeople who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their flight toward freedom would lead to sickness, disease, suffering, and death. But the war produced the largest biological crisis of the nineteenth century, and as historian Jim Downs reveals in this groundbreaking volume, it had deadly consequences for hundreds of thousands of freed people. In Sick from Freedom, Downs recovers the untold story of one of the bitterest ironies in American history--that the emancipation of the slaves, seen as one of the great turning points in U.S. history, had devastating consequences for innumerable freed people. Drawing on massive new research into the records of the Medical Division of the Freedmen's Bureau-a nascent national health system that cared for more than one million freed slaves-he shows how the collapse of the plantation economy released a plague of lethal diseases. With emancipation, African Americans seized the chance to move, migrating as never before. But in their journey to freedom, they also encountered yellow fever, smallpox, cholera, dysentery, malnutrition, and exposure. To address this crisis, the Medical Division hired more than 120 physicians, establishing some forty underfinanced and understaffed hospitals scattered throughout the South, largely in response to medical emergencies. Downs shows that the goal of the Medical Division was to promote a healthy workforce, an aim which often excluded a wide range of freedpeople, including women, the elderly, the physically disabled, and children. Downs concludes by tracing how the Reconstruction policy was then implemented in the American West, where it was disastrously applied to Native Americans. The widespread medical calamity sparked by emancipation is an overlooked episode of the Civil War and its aftermath, poignantly revealed in Sick from Freedom.

Author : Derek Humphry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-26
Category : Public opinion -- United States
ISBN : OCLC:1322590685

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Freedom to Die : People, Politics, and the Right-to-die Movement by Derek Humphry Pdf

Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : Global Academic Publishing
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1586842188

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Faith, Truth, and Freedom by Jacob Neusner Pdf

Examines the expulsion of Professor Gerd Lüdemann from the Theology Faculty at the University of Göttingen.

Author : Derek Humphry
Publisher : ERGO Bookstore
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Assisted suicide
ISBN : 0963728008

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Lawful Exit by Derek Humphry Pdf

Author : John F. Hoffmeyer
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Liberty
ISBN : 083863558X

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The Advent of Freedom by John F. Hoffmeyer Pdf

These sections bring into play terms that have been widely used in Western philosophy, but which in Hegel's discourse take on distinctive meanings: actuality, necessity, freedom.

Author : Shechen Gyaltsap Gyurme Pema Namgyal
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 761 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780834843820

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A Chariot to Freedom by Shechen Gyaltsap Gyurme Pema Namgyal Pdf

A unique commentary on the preliminary practices of Vajrayāna Buddhism, from a beloved Nyingma master. A Chariot to Freedom is one of the most beloved presentations of the preliminary practices, or ngöndro, that form the foundation of the Vajrayāna Buddhist path. This set of practices, common to all schools of Himalayan Buddhism, is what nearly every practitioner begins with, yet it also constitutes a complete method in and of itself. Although ngöndro are considered a prerequisite for further teachings and initiations into other practices, many of even the most accomplished masters continue to engage in them every day. Most of the other excellent works on these foundational techniques are specific to a particular tradition, but this text is widely considered to be exemplary, in part, because it is applicable to all traditions of ngöndro. Drawing from the original words of the Buddha in the sūtras and from later treatises by such masters as Nāgārjuna, Shāntideva, and Guru Padmasambhava, Shechen Gyaltsap’s commentary is a wonderfully curated anthology of Buddhist teachings on the preliminary practices of Vajrayāna Buddhism. It covers the thoughts that turn one’s mind away from ordinary pursuits and toward enlightenment, taking refuge, arousing the mind set on enlightenment (bodhichitta), purification, maṇḍala offering, and Guru Yoga. Shechen Gyaltsap explains why each practice is beneficial and provides profound and eminently useful guidance for practitioners, while simultaneously transmitting the wisdom of generations of Buddhist masters.

Author : Alexander King
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781452524276

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Freedom from Yourself by Alexander King Pdf

Freedom from Yourself: Selected Poems from Divan Shams Tabrizi is a guide written to help set us free from our ignorance and the prison of our minds which keeps us occupied in misery, fear, and guilt. Rumi's teaching is based on the foundations of Sufifism which is divine love, worship, simplicity and moderation, goodness, consciousness of God, humbleness, and tolerance. The most celebrated relationship in Rumi's spiritual development was with Shams Tabrizi, whom he met in Konya. Through their spiritual teamwork, they enlightened many people and also influenced all the centuries which followed. This guide was written to help people reach their ultimate goal of attaining Nirvana'a state of mind when all our desires subside and we live in total harmony, peace, serenity and total stillness of the mind. it represents the final goal of Buddhism. Freedom from Yourself enables everyone to go deeper into the meaning of Shams Tabrizi's poems and to apply them directly to the everyday problems we can encounter.

Author : John Alexander Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Telegraph
ISBN : HARVARD:32044019342179

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A Postal Telegraph Essential to the Freedom of the American Press and the Prosperity of the American People by John Alexander Anderson Pdf

Author : Leslie Topp
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780271079226

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Freedom and the Cage by Leslie Topp Pdf

Spurred by ideals of individual liberty that took hold in the Western world in the late nineteenth century, psychiatrists and public officials sought to reinvent asylums as large-scale, totally designed institutions that offered a level of freedom and normality impossible in the outside world. This volume explores the “caged freedom” that this new psychiatric ethos represented by analyzing seven such buildings established in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy between the late 1890s and World War I. In the last two decades of the Habsburg Empire, architects of asylums began to abandon traditional corridor-based plans in favor of looser formations of connected villas, echoing through design the urban- and freedom-oriented impulse of the progressive architecture of the time. Leslie Topp considers the paradoxical position of designs that promoted an illusion of freedom even as they exercised careful social and spatial control over patients. In addition to discussing the physical and social aspects of these institutions, Topp shows how the commissioned buildings were symptomatic of larger cultural changes and of the modern asylum’s straining against its ideological anchorage in a premodern past of “unenlightened” restraint on human liberty. Working at the intersection of the history of architecture and the history of psychiatry, Freedom and the Cage broadens our understanding of the complexity and fluidity of modern architecture’s engagement with the state, with social and medical projects, and with mental health, psychiatry, and psychology.