Larry McAfee(), Brittany Maynard(), Chapter 2, Elizabeth Bouvia (1983-PRESENT)

Russ Fine - answer-A disability advocate and director of the Injury Control Research Center at the University of Alabama Judge Edward Johnson - answer-Ruled in McAfee's favor for a physicians assisted suicide, he declared that no civil or criminal penalty would attach to any doctor who helped. The Switch - answer-A CBS movie portraying the accident and fight of McAfee in 1993 1989 (McAfee) - answer-McAfee was accepted and transferred to Briarcliff Nursing Home in the suburb of Birmingham, Alabama. 1989 (McAfee) - answer-McAfee filed suit in federal court to exercise his right to die and was granted it by Judge Edward Johnson 1993 (McAfee) - answer-A kink in McAfee's caused urine to back up causing toxicity and high blood pressure eventually leading to two terrible strokes leaving him with just a small amount of short-term memory. 1995 (McAfee) - answer-McAfee dies 6 years after his victorious ruling in court, but not because of his own decision but after being comatose for many months April 2013 (Mynard) - answer-Maynard is diagnosed with a kind of brain cancer called glioblastoma January 2014 (Mynard) - answer-Surgeons debulked Maynard's tumor, removing parts of her temporal lobe. April 2014 (Maynard) - answer-Expert doctors and physicians give Maynard six months to live because her cancer was still spreading inside her skull November 1, 2014 (Maynard) - answer-Maynard ends her life by using drugs prescribed by an Oregon physician because her quality of life had worsened with fatigue, headaches, and confusion. Quinlan decision - answer-Quinlan became unconscious after she consumed Valium along with alcohol while on a crash diet and lapsed into a coma, followed by a persistent vegetative state. After doctors, under threat from prosecutors, refused the request of her parents, Joseph and Julia Quinlan, to disconnect Quinlan's respirator, which the parents believed constituted extraordinary means of prolonging her life, her parents filed suit to disconnect Quinlan from her ventilator. In 1975, columnest Nat Hentoff predicted that this decision would bring on an empirical slippery slope Empirical Slippery Slope - answer-if x is legalized, there will be unavoidable consequences such as abuse or extensions of legalizing y Conceptual Slippery Slope - answer-Once a small change is made in a moral rule, other changes will logically follow terminal sedation - answer-administering large doses of sedatives to a patient when their suffering cannot be relieved and death is only hours or days away. Doctrine of double effect Hemlock Society - answer-national organization that promoted the right to die for terminally ill persons, calling for legalizing assistance for those who decide to take their own lives, now merged with Compassion and Choices SUPPORT study - answer-Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments. This study discovered competent people do not accurately predict what they will later find unacceptable as quality of life. Adaptation effect - answer-After six months or so, a patient that was disabled from an accident, adapt their views about acceptable quality of life Hubris - answer-excessive pride or self-confidence Hippocratic Oath - answer-An promise made new physicians to treat all people fairly, and to seek to preserve life. Named after a ancient Greek physician who is credited with writing it. Euthinasia - answer-Literally means "good dying"; an easy death as an escape from some condition, usually terminal, and felt by the patient to be intolerable. Assisted suicide - answer-the suicide of a patient suffering from an incurable disease, effected by the taking of lethal drugs provided by a doctor for this purpose. Joanne Lynn - answer-A physician that has cared for 1,000 hospice patients who believes that most terminal patience who request physician-assisted death are actually seeking attention, control, dignity, relief of symptoms, or relief from depression. Mercitron - answer-A simple device that consisted of three IV bags hund from an aluminum frame. The content of each IV bag was a saline solution, thiopental, and potassium chloride. Groningen Protocol - answer-Allows the euthanization of children with disabilities by parental consent. Extended legislation of dutch parliament in 2002 Godwin's Law - answer-As discussion grows longer on the topic of euthanasia, the probability of comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approached 100% Lebensunwertes Leben - answer-(German, 'life unworthy of life') A term used to describe the existence of those with mental or physical disabilities. It was later used as a justification for euthanasia. Pieter Admiraal - answer-A leader of assisted dying in the Netherlands, states that pain is usually the cause for death but the suffering that comes with the loss of freedoms Pain - answer-Is defined as physical discomfort suffering - answer-When people have to face and live with unpleasant events or conditions. A broader and more personal matter. Autonomic Dysreflexia - answer-involves uncontrolled activation of autonomic neurons, in the case of McAfee this was a result a C-2 vertebrae injury. December 16, 1983: Elizabeth Bouvia v. Riverside Hospital - answer-The court rejected Bouvia's decision to end her life, society was not responsible for helping her commit suicide. The court also expressed the importance of preserving life, protecting the interests of the hospital and its patients, as well as protection for similarly disabled individuals. Lastly, Bouvia's request challenged the ethical integrity of the medical profession. April 7, 1984 (Bouvia) - answer-Elizabeth lost her first appeal and checked herself out of the hospital after 217 days.She then checked into Hospital Del Mar at Playas de Tijuana, México. Elizabeth thought that they would assist her in her death. The physicians, however, suspected that she wanted to live. Two weeks later, Elizabeth left the hospital and decided to stay at a motel with hired nurses. April 24, 1984 (Bouvia) - answer-Elizabeth gave up on her plan to starve herself and decided to start eating solid foods. August 1985 (Bouvia) - answer-Elizabeth entered LA County-USC medical center where doctors installed a morphine pump to control pain caused by her arthritis. She promised to eat instead o