Essays Tagged: "Diane Pretty"

Bill of Rights: Four Freedoms

t to assemble allows people to gather peacefully for protests to bring about changes. A woman named Diane Pretty from the United Kingdom is paralyzed from the neck down. She has had Neuron disease sin ... in Strasbourg judges said the fact that assisted suicide was a crime in England was not a breach of Diane Pretty's human rights. To Diane Pretty the European court ruling was her last hope of a legal ...

(6 pages) 96 0 0.0 May/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

Argument Paper - Physical Assisted Suicide

in the courts during this century. The most recent and most controversial euthanasia is the case of Diane Pretty. She was 47, suffers from the incurable degenerative disorder motor neuron disease and ... ver having awareness of her environment (BBC News, Sunday, 12 May, 2002.). In what sense that could Diane even be considered a "healthy person"? Since Diane could feel neither embarrassment nor pain, ...

(8 pages) 39 0 5.0 Apr/2009

Subjects: Social Science Essays