Transcript Suicide - Okemos Public Schools

Suicide in Michigan
ASSISTED SUICIDE???????
MINORS?
Palliative Care
Assisted Suicide
Euthanasia
• Brittany Maynard Story
• & Death w/ Dignity Law Explained
• Editorial from Marilyn Golden
• 60 minutes: Dr. Jack Kevorkian (Royal Oak, Mi)
• Belgium Law video (cnn) (minors)
• ProCon.org – top 10 arguments
Assisted Suicide in MICHIGAN
Michigan Law (1993)
Causing a person by force to commit suicide is murder. Causing,
by force or coercion, a person to attempt suicide is attempted
murder. Doing any of the following with the intent to assist
someone in a suicide is a felony punishable by up to 4 years in
prison and/or a fine of $2000:
1. Provide the means by which an individual attempts or
commits suicide
2. Participate in an act by which an individual attempts or
commits suicide
3. Help an individual plan to attempt or commit suicide
This does not apply to providing pain medications with the
intent to relieve pain and not to cause death.
Oregon Law
Terminally-ill patients who wish to obtain a prescription under the Oregon, Washington,
or Vermont law must be a resident of one of the three states and follow a series of steps
in order to be certified.
Among other requirements, a patient must be:
• 18 years of age or older,
• a resident of Oregon, Washington, or Vermont;
• capable of making and communicating health care decisions for him/herself;
• and diagnosed with a terminal illness that will lead to death within six months.
Two physicians must determine whether these criteria have been met.
Request Timeline :
First oral request to your physician
15 day waiting period
Second oral request to your physician
Written request to your physician
48 hour waiting period before you can pick up your prescribed medications
Patient may pick up prescribed medications from the pharmacy
Arguments For:
Arguments Against:
Arguments 1
Arguments 2
Palliative Care Alternatives, Disabled People
On my website:
Street Law Documents – Unit 2 – Suicide PPT
Go to slide # 6 and use links to pro/con arguments
On a separate piece of paper:
Make two columns: Support PAS Oppose PAS
On each side: rank arguments from “most convincing”
to “least convincing” - top to bottom
*** you may include arguments NOT on website
On bottom:
Write your conclusion to the question- Would you
support or oppose legalizing PAS in Michigan?
• Work on/improve your levels of homicide
worksheet
• Take a notecard
• You will use the notecard to write your own scenario of
a particular level of homicide (1-7)
• Write a story/scenario- MAKE SURE IT’S CORRECT.
• Be creative
• underneath the story write the name of the type your
story shows
• I will read these and we will see if we can pick the
correct one
What about with minors?
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