HSS 4107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Equal Protection Clause, Sue Rodriguez, Robert Latimer

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HSS 4107
• Professor: Stuart Chambers

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Stewardship: god gave you life, only god can take it away. Suffering forces you to remember your religious beliefs patient endurance. If you are religious, you cannot escape the suffering because that shows distrust in your god. Devine wrath if someone sins (killed themselves be(cid:272)ause the(cid:455) did(cid:374)"t (cid:449)a(cid:374)t to suffer) the community will have to pay. Ratio(cid:374)ale: you (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t kill (cid:455)ourself (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause it goes agai(cid:374)st the sa(cid:374)(cid:272)tit(cid:455) of life. Rodriguez was sane, rational, is consenting, does not have a chronic disease it is terminal. (cid:862)killed(cid:863) his (cid:1005)(cid:1006) (cid:455)ear old disa(cid:271)led daughter (cid:449)ho (cid:449)as sufferi(cid:374)g. It is still illegal to kill someone on life support by pills or injections, however you can speed up death by methods of omission nature can take its course. Pro(cid:271)le(cid:373) (cid:449)ith the (cid:449)ords (cid:374)atural a(cid:374)d u(cid:374)(cid:374)atural: it"s ar(cid:271)itrar(cid:455) Example: some slugs are born hermaphrodites to us its (cid:862)u(cid:374)(cid:374)atural(cid:863), (cid:271)ut to the slug its very natural. The (cid:272)ause of death has to (cid:271)e (cid:862)(cid:374)ature(cid:863), a(cid:374)d (cid:374)ot us.