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There is a 10-page final paper due at the end of class. 

Physician assisted suicide is illegal in New York State. 

Brittany Maynard was a women in New Jersey that wanted to be euthanized because she was diagnosed with incurable brain cancer.  In her state euthanasia (PAS) was illegal. 

Roz would call her parents everyday but visit each weekend. It was too exhausting to visit them more than once a week. 

Hernando Cortes’s conquest of the Azetcs in 1518 was possible because of ____________.

Ira argues that someone who is dying is like a developing child.  They go through stages of discovery, insight, and adjustment to changing circumstances.

After Roz moved her parents to a facility near her home, she had to clean out their apartment. She took pictures of many of their piles of items accumulated over the decades. 

Withholding “ordinary” means from a patient is morally problematic when it results in the patient’s death. Ordinary means could include food, water, shelter; or the basic healthcare to retain a person’s dignity. 

This argument is used by persons who believe that active euthanasia should be legal because it will save money for the insurer and insurance companies. 

The New York colony ____________________.