Death with Dignity and the Right to Die

The CSU, Chico Center for Applied Professional Ethics (CAPE) and Interdisciplinary Center on Aging (ICOA) present

Death with Dignity and the Right to Die

Wednesday

March 28 
7:30 p.m.
PAC 134

Most ethical systems see the ending of a human life as wrong, but also see allowing unnecessary human suffering as wrong, too. Do we have the right to end our own lives? Are there circumstances under which we should be allowed to assist in ending the life of another person? Does the very same autonomy that makes human life worth living also allow for death with dignity? Does the value of human life trump all other values or do humans have the right to choose to the time and place of their own deaths? And, if so, under what circumstances?

Join CAPE and ICOA in discussion on this topic with two experts.

Richard Macdonald M.D. is a Senior Medical Advisor with the Final Exit Network and was the Medical Director of the Hemlock Society from 1993-2004

Becky Cox-White, Ph.D., R.N. is a Professor of Philosophy and Bioethics and is Project Director at the Center for Applied and Professional Ethics at CSU, Chico

A selection from the documentary film The Self-Made Man will be screened.

This event is free and open to the public.

For more information, visit www.csuc.edu/cape or www.csuc.edu/icoa