Persistent world

On April 14, 1975, after an evening out at a bar for her friend’s birthday, a 21-year-old New Jersey resident stopped breathing and lapsed into a coma . It was reported that Karen Ann Quinlan had barely eaten for two days was seen taking pills, and then went out drinking with some of her friends at Falconer's Tavern . She became unconscious at the bar and never regained consciousness. Thomas R. French, her roommate, took her back to their house. Karen had "ceased breathing for at least two 15-minute

question of quality of life and thus the need for end of life planning by individuals. Unfortunately, laws have been unable to keep pace with medical advances. There have been several well publicized cases involving end of life care for persons in a persistent vegetative state and the request for withdrawal of life sustaining therapies (e.g. Karen Quinlan, Nancy Cruzan) that have brought this topic to the fore front of public attention and resulted in legal precedence concerning an individual’s wishes

always stand out to fight for their right and freedom. I am a talkative person, and I can tell others what I am thinking very accurately. I am passionate of communicate with different people because this is a way to get to know more things about the world with fun. They tell me about their jobs, places that they have traveled, and delicious food they have eaten. Hearing their stories can make me feel like I have experienced what they did too. Therefore, I can never imagine how it would be like if I

Analysis The right to die has been brought to the media and public spotlight through the cases of Karen Ann Quinlan, Cruzan v. Missouri, and Vacco v. Quill. This issue has been the topic of heated debate for years in the religious, scientific, and political community. This is because this topic ties into many communities and effects a large amount of people. These cases brought the right to die debate to the religious community. The reason for this is from the use of life support which many believe

“Death is not the enemy doctor. Inhumanity is” (Rebman 5.) This quote was said by 78 year old Eli Kahn. He placed on a respirator machine in order to keep him alive but against his wishes. Eli Kahn was among countless people in this world that face an inevitable death who are not given the choice of preventing the pain and suffering. Euthanasia is a word that most people avoid because it is very controversial. But why? Euthanasia is a way of ending the prolonging of suffering, while leaving

there is absolutely nothing wrong with aborting it. However, if we hold these standards up to several other things we can see that, according to Warren, they too have no moral status or no right to life. For example, there is the person in a persistent vegetative state, which Warren even gives an example of to prove that not all human beings are people: "A man or woman whose consciousness has been permanently obliterated but who retains alive is a human being which is no longer a person, defective

To fully understand the complexity of consciousness, it must be defined. However there is no universal accepted definition due to the concept is looked at from many different positions and in different terms. In this essay which will explore altered states affecting consciousness, the definition which will be used is ‘One is aware of surroundings, and is able to make decisions and the ability to apply different experiences to different situations’. When consciousness is not present, a person is

Dudley Randall’s poem To the Mercy Killers tackles one of the most controversial issues in America today: euthanasia. No other issue has divided and caused much division and divergence in thought and views in this county as mercy killing and has through the years along with abortion become the defining topic of politics in America. Mercy killing and in fact the very question of what defines life has becoming a moral dilemma and a divisive factor in our society. Dudley Randall’s To the Mercy Killers

The End-of-Life Care of Mrs. Terri Schiavo When a person comes to the point of time at which they are at the end of their life, whether it is due to their age, natural causes or because an accident has happened, end-of-life care becomes a key component in their given situation. For most people, their families, whether it be their husband or their wife, their children, or even their parents, have to be the ones to make decisions about that care. This end-of-life care involves many decisions that

On Piotrowski et al\cite{Piotrowski}, the authors present a collaborative data storage (tinyDSM) middleware that addresses the common problems of store data on wireless sensor networks (WSN) using data replication on nodes of the network. However, in the proposal, the decision of the node to assume the role of data replicators is static and uses a random criterion depends only on the number of nodes and density of the network. It's created some problems if that node disappears from the network.