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65 relations: Activism, Al Pacino, Anno Domini, Assisted suicide, Athens, Author, Biennial plant, California, Cancer, Carrot, Classical Athens, Colorado, Columbia University Press, Compassion & Choices, Conium maculatum, Da Capo Press, Death, Death Studies, Denver, Derek Humphry, Detroit Police Department, England, Eugene, Oregon, Film, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Florida, Flowering plant, Gerald A. Larue, Gray Panthers, Herbaceous plant, Illinois, Jack Kevorkian, Los Angeles, Michigan, Motto, Oakland County, Michigan, Oregon, Oregon Ballot Measure 16 (1994), Oxford, Oxford University Press, Pancreatic cancer, Pathology, Phaedo, Phaedo of Elis, Philosophy, Physician, Plato, Poison, Portland, Oregon, ..., Prometheus Books, Right to die, Routledge, San Diego, Santa Monica, California, Simon & Schuster, Socrates, Susan Sarandon, Television film, United Kingdom, United States, Volkswagen, Volkswagen Type 2, World Federation of Right to Die Societies, You Don't Know Jack (film). Expand index (15 more) »
Activism
Activism consists of efforts to promote, impede, or direct social, political, economic, or environmental reform or stasis with the desire to make improvements in society.
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Al Pacino
Alfredo James Pacino (born April 25, 1940) is an American actor and filmmaker.
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Anno Domini
The terms anno Domini (AD) and before Christ (BC) are used to label or number years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
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Assisted suicide
Assisted suicide is suicide committed with the aid of another person, sometimes a physician.
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Athens
Athens (Αθήνα, Athína; Ἀθῆναι, Athênai) is the capital and largest city of Greece.
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Author
An author is the creator or originator of any written work such as a book or play, and is thus also a writer.
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Biennial plant
A biennial plant is a flowering plant that takes two years to complete its biological lifecycle.
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California
California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.
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Cancer
Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body.
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Carrot
The carrot (Daucus carota subsp. sativus) is a root vegetable, usually orange in colour, though purple, black, red, white, and yellow cultivars exist.
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Classical Athens
The city of Athens (Ἀθῆναι, Athênai a.tʰɛ̂ː.nai̯; Modern Greek: Ἀθῆναι, Athínai) during the classical period of Ancient Greece (508–322 BC) was the major urban center of the notable polis (city-state) of the same name, located in Attica, Greece, leading the Delian League in the Peloponnesian War against Sparta and the Peloponnesian League.
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Colorado
Colorado is a state of the United States encompassing most of the southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains.
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Columbia University Press
Columbia University Press is a university press based in New York City, and affiliated with Columbia University.
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Compassion & Choices
Compassion & Choices is a nonprofit organization in the United States working to improve patient rights and individual choice at the end of life, including access to medical aid in dying.
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Conium maculatum
Conium maculatum, the hemlock or poison hemlock, is a highly poisonous biennial herbaceous flowering plant in the carrot family Apiaceae, native to Europe and North Africa.
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Da Capo Press
Da Capo Press is an American publishing company with headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Death
Death is the cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism.
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Death Studies
Death Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal published ten times a year by Routledge and sponsored by the Association for Death Education and Counseling - The Thanatology Association.
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Denver
Denver, officially the City and County of Denver, is the capital and most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Colorado.
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Derek Humphry
Derek Humphry (born April 29, 1930) is a British-born American journalist and author notable as a proponent of legal assisted suicide and the right to die philosophy.
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Detroit Police Department
The Detroit Police Department (DPD) is a municipal police force responsible for the U.S. city of Detroit, Michigan.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Eugene, Oregon
Eugene is a city of the Pacific Northwest in the U.S. state of Oregon.
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Film
A film, also called a movie, motion picture, moving pícture, theatrical film, or photoplay, is a series of still images that, when shown on a screen, create the illusion of moving images.
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Final Exit
Final Exit (fully titled Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying) is a 1991 book written by Derek Humphry, a British-born American journalist, author, and assisted suicide advocate who co-founded the now-defunct Hemlock Society in 1980 and co-founded the Final Exit Network in 2004.
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Final Exit Network
Final Exit Network, Inc.
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Florida
Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.
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Flowering plant
The flowering plants, also known as angiosperms, Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants, with 416 families, approximately 13,164 known genera and c. 295,383 known species.
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Gerald A. Larue
Gerald Alexander Larue (June 20, 1916 in Calgary – September 17, 2014 in Newport Beach, California) was an American scholar of religion and professor emeritus of gerontology, a former ordained minister who became an agnostic, archaeologist, debunker of biblical stories and accounts of miracles, and humanist.
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Gray Panthers
The Gray Panthers are a series of multi-generational local advocacy networks in the United States which confront ageism and many other social justice issues.
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Herbaceous plant
Herbaceous plants (in botanical use frequently simply herbs) are plants that have no persistent woody stem above ground.
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Illinois
Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
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Jack Kevorkian
Jacob "Jack" Kevorkian (May 26, 1928 – June 3, 2011) was an American pathologist and euthanasia proponent.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.
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Michigan
Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes and Midwestern regions of the United States.
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Motto
A motto (derived from the Latin muttum, 'mutter', by way of Italian motto, 'word', 'sentence') is a maxim; a phrase meant to formally summarize the general motivation or intention of an individual, family, social group or organization.
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Oakland County, Michigan
Oakland County is a county in the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Oregon
Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region on the West Coast of the United States.
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Oregon Ballot Measure 16 (1994)
Measure 16 of 1994 established the U.S. state of Oregon's Death with Dignity Act (ORS 127.800-995), which legalizes medical aid in dying (commonly referred to as physician-assisted suicide) with certain restrictions.
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Oxford
Oxford is a city in the South East region of England and the county town of Oxfordshire.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.
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Pancreatic cancer
Pancreatic cancer arises when cells in the pancreas, a glandular organ behind the stomach, begin to multiply out of control and form a mass.
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Pathology
Pathology (from the Ancient Greek roots of pathos (πάθος), meaning "experience" or "suffering" and -logia (-λογία), "study of") is a significant field in modern medical diagnosis and medical research, concerned mainly with the causal study of disease, whether caused by pathogens or non-infectious physiological disorder.
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Phaedo
Phædo or Phaedo (Φαίδων, Phaidōn), also known to ancient readers as On The Soul, is one of the best-known dialogues of Plato's middle period, along with the Republic and the Symposium. The philosophical subject of the dialogue is the immortality of the soul.
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Phaedo of Elis
Phaedo of Elis (also Phaedon; Φαίδων ὁ Ἠλεῖος, gen.: Φαίδωνος; fl. 4th century BCE) was a Greek philosopher.
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Philosophy
Philosophy (from Greek φιλοσοφία, philosophia, literally "love of wisdom") is the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.
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Physician
A physician, medical practitioner, medical doctor, or simply doctor is a professional who practises medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining, or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments.
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Plato
Plato (Πλάτων Plátōn, in Classical Attic; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.
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Poison
In biology, poisons are substances that cause disturbances in organisms, usually by chemical reaction or other activity on the molecular scale, when an organism absorbs a sufficient quantity.
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Portland, Oregon
Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon and the seat of Multnomah County.
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Prometheus Books
Prometheus Books is a publishing company founded in August 1969 by the philosopher Paul Kurtz (who was also the founder of the Council for Secular Humanism, Center for Inquiry, and co-founder of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry).
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Right to die
The right to die is a concept based on the opinion that a human being is entitled to end his or her own life or to undergo voluntary euthanasia.
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Routledge
Routledge is a British multinational publisher.
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San Diego
San Diego (Spanish for 'Saint Didacus') is a major city in California, United States.
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Santa Monica, California
Santa Monica is a beachfront city in western Los Angeles County, California, United States.
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Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster, Inc., a subsidiary of CBS Corporation, is an American publishing company founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard Simon and Max Schuster.
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Socrates
Socrates (Sōkrátēs,; – 399 BC) was a classical Greek (Athenian) philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher, of the Western ethical tradition of thought.
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Susan Sarandon
Susan Abigail Sarandon (née Tomalin; born October 4, 1946) is an American actress and activist.
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Television film
A television film (also known as a TV movie, TV film, television movie, telefilm, telemovie, made-for-television movie, made-for-television film, direct-to-TV movie, direct-to-TV film, movie of the week, feature-length drama, single drama and original movie) is a feature-length motion picture that is produced for, and originally distributed by or to, a television network, in contrast to theatrical films, which are made explicitly for initial showing in movie theaters.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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Volkswagen
Volkswagen, shortened to VW, is a German automaker founded on 28 May 1937 by the German Labour Front under Adolf Hitler and headquartered in Wolfsburg.
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Volkswagen Type 2
The Volkswagen Type 2, known officially (depending on body type) as the Transporter, Kombi or Microbus, or, informally, as the Bus (US) or Camper (UK), is a forward control panel van introduced in 1950 by the German automaker Volkswagen as its second car model.
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World Federation of Right to Die Societies
The World Federation of Right to Die Societies is an international federation of associations that promote access to voluntary euthanasia.
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You Don't Know Jack (film)
You Don't Know Jack is a 2010 made-for-television biopic written by Adam Mazer and directed by Barry Levinson.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemlock_Society
