Jiang 1 Meijuan Jiang Kelly Turnbeaugh English 1010-028 July 12, 2013 Annotated Bibliography: Assisted Suicide Karaim,

Reed. Assisted Suicide: Should doctors be allowed to help terminally ill patients die? CQ Researcher, 17 May 2013. Web. 17 Jul. 2013. Summary. In this article, Reed Karaim discusses about physician assisted suicide. between supporters and opponents. On each side the author uses some evidences to support his point of view. Supporters consider that assisted suicide avoids unnecessary painful and meet their death by their own wish. But opponents think it devalues life and it may exploitation by relatives or others. It may lose control and leads to widespread euthanasia of sick and vulnerable. In the article, the author provides some information about assisted suicide currently in some states which have permitted to practice legal by law. His research shows that assisted suicide has been climbing slowly. Evaluation. Mr. Karaimis the author of novel, if Men Were Angels, which was selected for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers series. He is also the winner of the Robin Goldstein Award for Outstanding Regional Reporting and other journalism honors. He is a freelance writer in Tucson, Ariz., has written for The Washington Post, U. S. News & World Report, Smithsonian, American Scholar, USA Weekend and other publications. We can trust his article as a credible source. I feel his style of writing compelling and profundity. Reflection. It is difficult to make a decision about sustaining life, allowing it to end early or even hastening death among the terminally ill patients and their families. Assisted suicide is on

Jiang 2 debate in many years. I am a patient who may want to choose that and I want to find out how it works and how people feel, why people want assisted suicide. I will find information useful in my research paper to support my point of view.

Mayo, David J. Assisted Suicide: Should doctors be allowed to help terminally ill patients die? Pro. CQ Researcher, 17 May 2013. Web. 17 Jul. 2013. Summary. In this article, Professor David Mayo use his father as a example, who was dead by colon cancer, to prove that assisted suicide makes terminally ill patients die with dignity and on their own desire. He believes assisted suicide can reduce the pain and suffering in their final days and it may also invite horrible abuses. Evaluation. Mr. Mayo is a professor of philosophy Emeritus, University of Minnesota, Duluth; board member. This article he wrote for CQ Researcher, May 2013. So we can trust his article as a credible source. I want to use this source for pros side of assisted suicide. Reflection. The authors point of view is acceptable for the pro side. The pro side derives from compassion. Most family members want their patients to end their life peacefully. I agree with this. I will use this source for my pro side.

Callahan, Daniel. Assisted Suicide: Should doctors be allowed to help terminally ill patients die? Con. CQ Researcher, 17 May 2013. Web. 17 Jul. 2013. Summary. In the article, Daniel Callahan provides some argues. He believes that few of us want to die, and no one wants to die a poor death. He also believes modern medical technologies effectively are able to eliminate or greatly reduce pain and suffering. His point of view is: everybody will die, and death is our last human fate, not an indignity. He indicates that the task of doctor is to save peoples life and look for a patients peaceful death.

Jiang 3 Evaluation. Mr. Daniel Callahan is Senior Research Scholar and President Emeritus of the Center. He is also co-director of the Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and Health Policy. Over the years his research and writing have covered a wide range of issues, from the beginning until the end of life. He has served as a Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Medical School and is now a Senior Scholar at Yale. He received his B.A. from Yale and a PhD in philosophy from Harvard. We should trust his article as a credible source. Reflection. I feel his point of view against from con side. Also I feel his analysis and words very strong. I can use this source to show my readers on con side.

Lace, Timothy. Assisted Suicide: Should doctors help hopelessly ill patients take their lives? Pro. CQ Researcher, 21 February 1992. Web. 17 Jul. 2013. Summary. In this article, Timothy Lace believes that as healers, the vital task is healing and physicians performs. He agrees that doctor ameliorate human suffering when a cure is not possible. He thinks that it is more humane to help terminally ill patients to end their life as they desire. Doctors should be free to help them without the fear of criminal prosecution. Evaluation. Timothy J. Lace is a student of Texas A&M University College of Medicine. From Journal of the American Medical Association, Dec. 1, 1989. This article is also on CQ researcher, as a healer, we can trust his article as a credible source. Reflection. I use this source for pro side. As a healer, use more humane way to deal with assisted suicide, I agree with the point of viewand I will use this source to persuade my readers to accept my point of view. Hunter, Samuel F. Assisted Suicide: Should doctors help hopelessly ill patients take their lives? Con. CQ Researcher, 21 February 1992. Web. 17 Jul. 2013.

Jiang 4 Summary. In the article, Samuel Hunter indicates that as physician should help terminal ill patient to maximize the potential for a long and rich life, even if death is inevitable. He also emphasizes that doctors should best serve patients by accurate prognosis and skillful management of complications and pain. He believes that assisted suicide violates our fundamental precepts of healing and disrupts important social, emotional and spiritual processes. Evaluation. Samuel F. Hunter is a student of University of Texas Medical School at Galveston. From Journal of the American Medical Association, Dec. 1, 1989. Also it is on CQ Researcher. As a physician, we should trust the article as a credible source. Reflection. To cure patient is a goal of doctor, but I dont think Assisted suicide deny the significance of life. To reduce patients suffering is one of doctors goals too. I will use this source to compare with pros side.

Smith, Wesley. Right to Die: Is it too easy to remove life support? Pro. CQ Researcher, 13 May 2013. Web. 17 Jul. 2013. Summary. In this article, Wesley J. Smith discusses the case of Terri Schiavos death. Through this case, it draws attention to protect disabled people from medical discrimination. One of his suggestions is others cannot make a non-treatment decision on disabled patients base on quality of life concepts; the decision of ending life should be made by patient. He thinks that those patients who do not want feeding tubes should put their wishes in writing in case before they incapacitate. Evaluation. Mr. Smith is Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute, and attorney, International Task Force on Euthanasia and assisted Suicide. Written for CQ Researcher, May 2005. We should trust his article as a credible source.

Jiang 5 Reflection. I like the authors point. Any person include family members cannot make any decision to ending dying persons life in casual. Their value of being alive is depending on themselves. It is as same important as you live. They have right to have a life as long as the God giving to them. We shouldnt end their life by our purpose unless they wrote down on the paper before they incapacitate as their desire. I will use this for pro side.

Caplan, Arthur L. Right to Die: Is it too easy to remove life support? Con. CQ Researcher, 13 May 2013. Web. 17 Jul. 2013. Summary. In his article, he believes that family members or those close to the patient can best speak for them if the patient becomes incapacitated. He agrees that those who know a person best can say what that person would have wanted to do. But he stresses that no one has the right to make anyone do anything which we do not choose to do. It would be unconstitutional. He appeal to create a legal system that listens carefully and intently to try and discern the wishes of a person incapacitated. Evaluation. Arthur L. Caplan is a chairman of Department of Medical Ethics and a director of Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania. From testimony before the house Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human Resources on April 19, 2005. We can trust his article as a credible source. Reflection. I want use this source for my con side. It is a just opposite example of someone who agrees family member or close to patient to make decide ending patients life for the patient who cannot explain the medical situation and express what they desire. I dont agree with this point. Life belongs to us. Anyone should not evaluate other peoples life of value from their point of view. If law proves that, it probably will be abuse by someones own purpose. It may cause of murder.

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Pearlman, Robert. Starks, Helene. Why Do Patients Request Physician-Assisted Death (a.k.a. Physician-Assisted Suicide)? ProCon.org, 10 June, 2008. Web. 24 Jul. 2013. Summary. Dr. Pearlman and Dr. Helene wrote notes in their article in 2004. In their interview with 35 families, they asked questions about their illness and the reason for seeking aid in dying. They found 9 reasons. Over 60% patients they said feeling weak, tired, and uncomfortable; loss of function; loss of sense of self; desire for control; fears about future quality of life and dying. They give statistics showing below: Motivating Factor Illness-related experiences Feeling weak, tired, and uncomfortable 24 (69%) Loss of function 23 (66%) Pain or unacceptable side effects of pain medication 14 (40%) Threats to sense of self Loss of sense of self 22 (63%) Desire for control 21 (60%) Long-standing beliefs in favor of hastened death 5 (14%) Fears about the future Fears about future quality of life and dying 21 (60%) Negative past experiences with dying 17 (49%) Fear of being a burden on others 3 (9%)." Evaluation. Robert Pearlman, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine at the Departments of Medicine, Medical History and Ethics, and Health Services, University of Washington, and Helene Starks, MPH, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical History and Ethics

Jiang 7 at the University of Washington, Seattle, wrote in their chapter "Why Do People Seek PhysicianAssisted Death?" that appeared in the 2004 book Physician-Assisted Dying: The Case for Palliative Care and Patient Choice: Reflection. I will use this source to show the reason why ill patients want to ending their life and why we can accept their requests as their desire. Also they have right to do that according to human rights.