This course description has been replaced by another:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/E-RTD.html
It began in January 2010 and will continue into 2011.
A face-to-face group like that discribed below
would still be possible anywhere in the world.
EXPLORING
THE RIGHT-TO-DIE:
AN
WORLD-WIDE ELECTRONIC DISCUSSION GROUP
This group will meet in cyber-space
by means of a Google Group and possibly a Facebook Page.
Each month the members will select a theme.
A brief presentation (3 or 4 pages)
will be distributed electronically as a discussion-starter.
Here is a set of 10 possible themes for discussion:
The
One-Month-less Club:
Live Well Now, Omit the Last Month .
Four
Differences between Irrational Suicide and Voluntary Death
.
Four
Differences between Mercy-Killing and Merciful Death .
Four Legal Ways
to Choose a Voluntary Death or a Merciful Death .
Pulling the Plug:
A Paradigm for Life-Ending Decisions .
A New Way to
Secure the Right to Die:
Laws Against Causing Premature Death .
Two Approaches
to Right-to-Die Laws:
Granting Permission & Banning Harms .
Voluntary Death
by Dehydration
.
Fifteen
Safeguards
for Life-Ending Decisions
.
Do I Lose the
Right-to-Die When I Lose Consciousness?
After the first 10 people have joined the EXCO
e-mailing list,
we will select a new name (or keep the same name)
and establish the Google Group and/or the Facebook Page.
A further exploration of such possibilities
appears here on the Internet:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/E-RTD.html
All suggestions concerning structure and content are
welcome.
Send your thoughts to the facilitator, James Park, e-mail:
PARKx032@TC.UMN.EDU
ABOUT
THE FACILITATOR:
James Park is an existential philosopher and advocate of the
right-to-die.
He created the Right-to-Die---Safeguards Group
and its website: Safeguards for Life-Ending Decisions:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/SG.html.
During his long career in alternative adult
education,
he has led about 200 different discussion groups.
Most of these were in the Minnesota Free University.
See more information about his career in adult education:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/JP-AL-ED.html
Created
October 2, 2009; Revised 10-25-2010