Fredrick is one hundred and eleven years of age and the last survivor of Hitler’s holocaust. Hidden away, for it is illegal for a man of his age to live in this future of enforced Euthanasia,... More > he is asked by his great-granddaughter, Christina, to write his memoires. In this world without history, Fredrick is the last voice to remain.
Claire is a curious child in an ignorant world. Torn by her mother's demands to conform to society and her natural desire to explore, she soon climbs into the garden of the house next door. There she meets Fredrick, knee deep in the vegetable patch that he grows to sustain himself. He quickly realises that to save the girl from her future, he will have to teach her of his past.
Then begins an intertwined story of ignorance, love and loss, driven along by one simple truth;
That humanity, as in Hitler's Germany, can be controlled but can never truly die.< Less
The journals of Erika and Lewis were found by Seitseville police in the aftermath of a long string of suicides thought to be caused by the mercury in the towns' water. The nature of these deaths were... More > lead back to one teenager - Erika Cohen. These journals tell a frightening account of teenage depression and a suicide Pact lead by a modern day Ixtab.
Will Erika succeed in fulfilling her Pact by blind her friends -Lewis, Joshua, Miriam, Robin, Tommy, and Francis with her delusions of life being a race to win, to beat God at his game, and to earn a special place after death where they can all be together?Lewis, quickly recognizing his mistake of signing his best friends' Pact,becomes a traitor in her eyes despite her love for him...will she seek revenge as promised?
Lewis may be descending into madness as Erika's caretaker and lover. She has become his darkness and he, her accomplice.< Less
Fredrick is one hundred and eleven years of age and the last survivor of Hitler’s holocaust. Hidden away, for it is illegal for a man of his age to live in this future of enforced Euthanasia,... More > he is asked by his great-granddaughter, Christina, to write his memoires. In this world without history, Fredrick is the last voice to remain.
Claire is a curious child in an ignorant world. Torn by her mother's demands to conform to society and her natural desire to explore, she soon climbs into the garden of the house next door. There she meets Fredrick, knee deep in the vegetable patch that he grows to sustain himself. He quickly realises that to save the girl from her future, he will have to teach her of his past.
Then begins an intertwined story of ignorance, love and loss, driven along by one simple truth;
That humanity, as in Hitler's Germany, can be controlled but can never truly die.< Less
Discussion. If vou allow involuntary abortion how can you refuse voluntary euthanasia?
As of 2011 some forms of voluntary euthanasia are legal in Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands,... More > Switzerland,and the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington. Euthanasia brings about many ethical issues regarding a patient’s death.
Some physicians say euthanasia is a rational choice for competent patients who wish to die to escape unbearable suffering. Others feel that aiding in the patient’s death goes against a physician’s duty to preserve life.
The ethics of the AVE/PVE are complex and yet seem to be based on a whole range of underlying and conflicting values. Doctors say that the value of a human life is "beyond price", but who will pay that price in the USA and in developing countries?
Can we justify paying a billion dollars of health resources each year for 8000 PVS patients in the USA, while in the world, millions of normal babies die from lack of health resources.< Less
Discussion. If vou allow involuntary abortion how can you refuse voluntary euthanasia?
As of 2011 some forms of voluntary euthanasia are legal in Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands,... More > Switzerland,and the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington. Euthanasia brings about many ethical issues regarding a patient’s death.
Some physicians say euthanasia is a rational choice for competent patients who wish to die to escape unbearable suffering. Others feel that aiding in the patient’s death goes against a physician’s duty to preserve life.
The ethics of the AVE/PVE are complex and yet seem to be based on a whole range of underlying and conflicting values. Doctors say that the value of a human life is "beyond price", but who will pay that price in the USA and in developing countries?
Can we justify paying a billion dollars of health resources each year for 8000 PVS patients in the USA, while in the world, millions of normal babies die from lack of health resources.< Less
17th Century France. An impoverished woman, devastated by the loss of her lover, dreams of a world to escape the pain...and discovers there may be more power to her visions than she originally... More > thought.< Less
Practitioners of medical practice, bound by the Hippocratic oath defend the right to life, must exhaust all wealth of possibilities before deciding whether the patient in question has the mental... More > capacity define their own destiny, with the consequences
legal participate as "assistant" in death of those who must defend< Less
Practitioners of medical practice, bound by the Hippocratic oath defend the right to life, must exhaust all wealth of possibilities before deciding whether the patient in question has the mental... More > capacity define their own destiny, with the consequences
legal participate as "assistant" in death of those who must defend< Less
No one really wants to die, or do they? From classical times to our post-modern era of medical high tech, societies have struggled with the thorny issue of euthanasia, and what it entails. Who shall... More > be entitled to a "good death" and in what form shall it arrive? This book provides the reader with insight and enlightenment on the medical, philosophical, social, cultural and existential aspects of "good death" amid our digitized, individualized and ageing society, hampered by rising health care costs but unchained from one standardized level of care...< Less
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