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Neil M. Gorsuch is an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia provides the most thorough overview of the ethical and legal issues raised by assisted suicide and euthanasia--as well as the most comprehensive argument against their legalization--ever published.
In clear terms accessible to the general reader, Neil Gorsuch thoroughly assesses the strengths and weaknesses of leading contemporary...
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This is a compelling and dramatic account of Cuban policy in Africa from 1959 to 1976 and of its escalating clash with U.S. policy toward the continent. Piero Gleijeses's fast-paced narrative takes the reader from Cuba's first steps to assist Algerian rebels fighting France in 1961, to the secret war between Havana and Washington in Zaire in 1964-65--where 100 Cubans led by Che Guevara clashed with 1,000 mercenaries controlled by the CIA--and, finally,...
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Islamic Ethics of Life considers three of the most contentious ethical issues of our time-abortion, war, and euthanasia-from the Muslim perspective. Distinguished scholars of Islamic studies have collaborated to produce a volume that both integrates Muslim thinking into the field of applied ethics and introduces readers to an aspect of the religion long overlooked in the West. This collective effort sets forth the relationship between Islamic ethics...
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Societies are based on the principle of the inalienable right to life, and indeed States have a duty to preserve life. Euthanasia is based on a human principle: to shorten the unnecessary suffering of the person undergoing a process of terminal deterioration. Of course, different cultures and different bodies of law have different assessments of the subject. The right to assisted suicide or to a so-called "dignified death" generates debates: those...
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"Winner of the 2006 Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association" Shai J. Lavi teaches law and sociology at Tel-Aviv University. His research lies at the crossroads of culture, philosophy, and law.
How we die reveals much about how we live. In this provocative book, Shai Lavi traces the history of euthanasia in the United States to show how changing attitudes toward death reflect new and troubling ways...
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This is a fictional story where an handsome guy found himself with and irresistible lady during the pandemic period. Seeing each other every now and then, things got heated up and the unexpected happened between them but what led to this intimacy is one of the intriguing part of this story that will captivate your mind and turn on your fantasy gear for your long erotic desire.
Erotica Photography, Adult photography Sensual Erotic art Nude Boudoir...
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First Run Features
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2022.
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Tells the story of a chronically underlooked crisis that's dogging the rural American South. By rescuing countless dogs from euthanasia and neglect, a group of intrepid women in northwest Georgia have stepped up to compensate for the lack of a local animal shelter — taking matters into their own hands. Punctuated by traditional bluegrass tunes, this authentic indie doc is the perfect combo of warm fuzzies and a serious, sometimes heartbreaking mission....
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1992.
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Delbert, Bill, Lyman, and Roscoe Ward are illiterate bachelor brothers who never ventured beyond their 99-acre dairy farm in Central New York State. Known by their neighbors as “The Ward Boys”, the brothers shared a two-room shack with no running water or indoor toilet for as long as anyone could remember. But their quiet life was shattered June 6, 1990, when Bill was found dead in the bed he shared with Delbert. By day’s end, Delbert had confessed...
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