CFD 3250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Advance Healthcare Directive, Assisted Suicide, Formal System
19 Dec 2018
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Part six: legal, conceptual, & moral issues. The 4 chapters in this part address several topics that challenge us: To understand the facts & implications of the situation at hand, & the options available. To choose our values & a course of action in each situation. Chapter 19 the meaning & place of death in human life: chapter 16. To describe the origin & nature of formal legal systems as they relate to death-related events. To explain the nature & role of advance directives for health care. To explore legal issues associated with definition, determination, & certification of death. To examine topics related to organ, tissue, & body donation. To review subjects related to the disposition of one"s body & one"s property or estate: american society & its laws. Every society develops a more or less formal system of law. For most issues related to death, dying, & bereavement:
