Evisceration: A Narrative Fiction

    Due to the domestication of cats and dogs their populations have skyrocketed. This is due in part to the lack of pet owners acting in a responsible manner. These responsibilities include the spaying and neutering of  pets. These numbers of

What if some people didn't have some emotions or feelings. They probably wouldn't be able to tell because they mentally would not be able to experience that emotion or feeling. Frontal lobe lobotomy is a controversial medical procedure in which surgeons scrape off the frontal lobe of your brain which controls your emotions, feelings, and other crucial body functions. This procedure has very little uses and is often criticized for playing God. Frontal Lobe Lobotomy should be banned due to its low full recovery rate, long term effects, and its illegitimate medical history

“Is it worse to kill someone than to let someone die?” – James Rachels. At the end of the disagreement, many philosophers say euthanasia, also known as physician-assisted suicide, is a compassionate method of death. At the other side are the opponents of euthanasia, who may consider this technique as a form of murder. In this paper, I will show that it is not important to know the distinction between killing and letting die on request which is performed by a physician. Both killing and letting die on request are similar because it is based on the controversial issue called euthanasia also known as physician-assisted suicide.

Plot is defined as, "the authors arrangement of incidents in a story it is the organizing principle that controls the controls the order of events (Meyer,64)." The element of plot is heavily relied on in the short story, "The Killings" by Andre Dubus. The plot which is completely made inside the imagination of an author (Meyer,64), gives the audience important insight to people, places, and events in the story (Meyer,64) . "The Killings" provides a somewhat conventional plot pattern, where the character is confronted with a problem and is then led into a climax, which late leads to the resolution of the story (Meyer,65). The conventional plot is easy to follow and serves as a basis for movies and other

Kara Tippets, a thirty-eight year old married Christian woman with four children suffered from metastatic breast cancer. Tippets strongly did not believe in assisted dying for many reasons. She slowly started accepting her condition over time and knew that her day of death was coming soon. Since her husband was a pastor, they strongly believed in the Christian way to fully live their lives to the best of their abilities. However, a twenty- nine year old woman named Brittany Maynard did not believe in assisted dying. She was diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor and decided to end her life before the tumor progressed and before her suffering worsened. Maynard strongly believed in the phrase “death with dignity” and was forced to move to Oregon from California to make physician-assisted dying legal. Only five states made physician-dying legal and California did not make it legal until after Maynard had passed away. Oregon, Vermont, Washington, and California were the other four states that made the procedure legal to any individual. Brittany Maynard had chosen to inject herself with lethal prescription with the assistance of a physician on November 1, 2014 to take her life away, but Kara Tippetts did not agree with her decision.

The intent of this article is to discuss outcomes since the Death with Dignity Act was passed. It follows a Physician who has written prescriptions to assist patients with ending their life. These patients are terminally ill and within six months of dying. It discusses the stipulations of the Death with Dignity Act, statistical data, and how this act has increased the number of patients seeking hospice or palliative care. Statistics regarding patient’s reasons for seeking physician-assisted suicide are provided within the text.

Manny Fernandez, in the article “Texas Prisoner Burials Are A Gentle Touch In a Punitive System,” claims prisoner burials are sympathetic for stringent prisons. Fernandez, in his article, followed the burial of a prisoner named Kenneth Wayne Davis in order to prove his claim about the sympathetic prisoner burials done by stringent prisons. For instance, Fernandez includes the words warden James Jones in regards to the prision burials, “It’s important because they’re people still...Of couse they comitted a crime and they have to do their time, and unfortunately they end up dying while they’re in prison, but they’re still human beings,” (Hernandez 2 ). This evidence suggests that although the prisoner has comitted a crime, the prison- out of

Choosing to die with the assistance of a physician is a much debated controversial issue in the states. Assisted suicide is where a patient with a terminal disease choose to take their life to relieve their suffering, sometimes with the aid of a physician, and is legal in only five states. Assisted suicide is “legal in Washington, Oregon, California, Vermont and Bernalillo County,New Mexico(Death with).” This option should be available to patients in all states, because terminally ill patients should have the choice to end their suffering if their pain becomes unbearable. Terminal patients should be able to die on their own terms.

Torture, (n.), the action or practice of inflicting severe pain on someone as a punishment or to force them to do or say something, or for the pleasure of the person inflicting the pain. After reading “Torture” by Holocaust survivor, Jean Amery, it is clear that the above definition of torture does not provide an honest connotative definition for the act and effects of torture. Amery speaks about torture from his own personal experiences in both Auschwitz and Buchenwald, providing witness to the dehumanization of Jews. In “Torture”, Jean Amery truthfully depicts torture as an unimaginable terror, in which one loses sense of self, human dignity, and trust in the world, while gaining a haunted future.

The Nazis followed Darwin’s ideas of natural selection and used his theory “survival of the fittest” to guide their actions.6 This theory suggests that allowing disabled persons to live would eventually lead to the reproduction of additional “unfit” persons. Hitler and the Nazis pushed their propaganda onto the general population, insisting that the disabled placed an unnecessary burden on the country by portraying them as problematic, but also as freaks.7 Disabled persons, including those who were both physically and mentally handicapped, were ordered to mental institutions and the Nazi euthanasia programs began.

T.J doesn't absolutely need to be hung! All he needs is to be scared straight. If we keep him in jail for, say, three weeks, he won’t steal another thing in his life. The other three could be handled this way too! They’ll see what they had, and want to go back. Then when they go back, they’ll never want to be in jail again. I feel as if things like this can be avoided. All we need to do is treat everybody like people. I don’t mean to start a mob, but that’s what they are. If we treat them normally, they won’t need to commit crimes to be noticed. Now, don’t kill me for this, but this could be what we need to reduce crime. Stop the discrimination, and they’ll stop the crime. But hy, that’s just a thought.

A Review and Commentary On:A Time to Kill By John GrishamA Time to Kill written by John Grisham is a book that presents the high racial tensions in Canton Mississippi in the early 1990’s. The book opens with two young men, James Lewis Willard and Billy Ray Cobb, joy riding in their brand new yellow pick up truck decked out with Confederate flags. They speed though black neighborhoods throwing full beer bottles at people and houses, until they come across ten-year-old Tonya Hailey walking home from the grocery store. The men pull over, trap her, rape her repeatedly, beat her, hang her, throw her off a bridge and leave her for dead. Her siblings find Tonya later that day, barely alive, her father, Carl Lee Hailey., and the black community

Crime in America is something that has been around for many decades. While a large number of crimes are considered minor, many more result in the serious injury or death of another human being. “When we think about crimes, we … normally focus on inherently wrongful acts that harm or threaten to harm persons or property” (Bibas 22). The death penalty, also called capital punishment, has been used as a means of punishing the most violent of criminals in an attempt to prevent others from committing similar crimes. Over the centuries, the methods used to conduct these executions have evolved and changed due to effectiveness and public opinion.

This is why Euthanasia is important and summarizing the research that I found on Euthanasia. Euthanasia is important because there is a lot of arguments about Euthanasia. Some people support it and some people do not support Euthanasia (Euthanasia and assisted suicide- Arguments). Euthanasia allows people to be free from physical pain. It is the hastening of death of a patient to prevent further sufferings (Euthanasia Revisited). The religious argument states God chooses when human life ends. Euthanasia also causes mental suffering because they are in physical pain or they are experiencing with terminal illness. It is a debatable issue. There are many different opinions on Euthanasia.

"Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research."