Assisted+Suicide

=Assisted Suicide =

// Assisted Suicide: //
// suicide facilitated by another person, especially a physician, who organizes the logistics of the suicide, as by providing the necessary quantities of a poison. // **Essential Question:** **List Supporting Questions (provide background and guide your research):**
 * Is it morally sound to prevent consenting adults in the right state of mind from ending their pain by taking their own life? ||
 * 1 Who is Dr.Kevorkian? ||
 * 2 What laws have already been passed prohibiting or allowing it? ||
 * 3 How does the American public feel about it? ||
 * 4 Why is there so much controversy over this topic? ||
 * 5 What law suits have been heard involving this topic and what were the  results? ||

==2. Information seeking strategies: Use these Keywords to search online databases for books, articles and websites. Use Boolean Operators (AND, OR, NOT) to combine these terms and refine your search: ==
 * physician || lethal injection || euthanasia || legality ||
 * humane || rights || Dr. Kevorkian || <span style="background-color: #ffff00; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">suicide ||

Look for Books under these Dewey Numbers:
<span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #ff0000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Ethical Norms ||=  ||= <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #ff0000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">362.2 <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #ff0000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> Mental and Emotional Illness and Disturbances ||= <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #ff0000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">344.73
 * = <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #ff0000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">179

<span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #ff0000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Social Law: Specific Jurisdictions and Areas ||

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Reference Books in the Library Collection that will support your topic:

 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">REF179.7 PHY |||| <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Physician-assisted Suicide ||
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> REF179 DOC |||| <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> Doctor Assisted Suicide and the Euthanasia Movement ||
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">REF362.2 SUI || <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Suicide: Opposing Viewpoints ||  ||
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">REF344.73 DON || <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Cruzan V. Missouri: The Right to Die ||  ||

Library home page with links to the databases
Sample Subscription Database searches:
 * [[file:ast_ebscoPOV.pdf]] || [[file:ast_galeHRC.pdf]] ||
 * Now do your own search || Now do your own search ||

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Sample Advanced Google searches:
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Three excellent web sites: <span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">Santa Clara University
 * <span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">New England Journal of Medicine ||  ||
 * <span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">[] ||  ||
 * <span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">BU ||  ||
 * <span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">[] ||  ||
 * <span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">[] ||  ||
 * <span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">[|www.scu.edu/ethics/publications/iie/v1n1/suicide.html] ||  ||
 * <span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">[|www.scu.edu/ethics/publications/iie/v1n1/suicide.html] ||  ||

Step 4: Use of Information; Take notes; record bibliographicc information for each source.
See citation & notecard guides under Roadmap to Research on the main library page. Use the <>, Citation Machine or Easy Bib for your works Cited list.

Step 6. Evaluate your work that you have successfully completed all steps.
See <>; <>.

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