Comparative Business Analysis:

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Comparative Business Analysis

• Steven Madden, LTD. And Wolverine World Wide Inc.

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Definition

• originated from the Greek language
• eu means "good" and thanatos means "death
• "the intentional termination of life by another
  at the explicit request of the person who dies."
• Some people define euthanasia to include both
  voluntary and involuntary termination of life

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Reasons Against

• Hippocratic Oath
• Moral
• Theological
• Competence
• Necessity
• Wishes of Family
• Pressure

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My Opinion

• Euthanasia is the right thing to do because only
  in this way people who experience extreme pain
  and are dying could receive adequate help.

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Two Types Of Euthanasia

• PASSIVE
• give a patient large doses of morphine to control
  pain
• dual effect of relieving pain
• regarded as ethical in most political
  jurisdictions

• ACTIVE
• involves causing the death of a person through a
  direct action

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Most Famous Example

• Dr. Jack Kevorkian
• famous for his quote "dying is not a crime."
• mercy killing in 1998 of a patient with ALS (Lou
  Gehrig's Disease)
• Charged with 1st degree murder, the jury found
  him guilty of 2nd degree murder in 1999-MAR.

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Misinterpretation

• Mistaken with the vicious practice of Nazi
  doctors, who killed patients with physical or
  mental disabilities

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Nancy Crick

• "I am not being pressured or encouraged to take
  my life, in fact everybody has been trying to get
  me to stay longer but they are not going through
  what I am. I am not depressed, unstable or mad,
  I've simply reached a point where my life is done
  and now I want to die peacefully. Surely people
  just sitting with me, people I love, my friends,
  don't have to risk going to jail just because
  they chose to be with me when I die."

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Do Not Forget

• euthanasia is a responsibility
• It is a personal issue
• A report, by Heleen Dupuis of the Department of
  Metamedica at Leiden University Medical School
• "It is difficult to imagine that people can
  escape from the strength of this argument. Why
  shall we burden each other with our personal
  views on life, illness and dying? Why is not it
  possible to accept that people have different
  opinions about the real personal issues of life
  and death? Why not accept a moral plurality
  concerning the end of life? This is the real
  issue that every society with highly advanced
  medical care has to reflect upon."