In 1991, Derek Humphry's best-selling book Final Exit was published. The book was widely discussed and criticized because it outlines numerous ways to take your own life including a list of dos and don'ts, and a complete list of lethal drug dosages, (Ekland-Olsen & Aseltine 48). In 1993, according to the New England Journal of Medicine a study of systematic suicide in New York reported that there was more than a 300% increase in deaths by asphyxiation, by using a plastic bag over the head. Many began to wonder if the book by Humphry was the cause of the increase (Ekland-Olsen & Asel...

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In Hannah Arendt's book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963), when one sees acts that are often done without any thought, that seem so normal, done in a different, frightening context, these acts look grotesque, and we can start to question what we take as normal and natural. ...

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Lumburgh (Gary Cole) shows up at his cubicle and mentions that he didn't put the cover sheet on his latest TPS report. ... According to Chapter 8 in the business ethics book, the way Initech stopped sending paychecks to Milton and continued to let him work would be immoral. ...

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Mark Juergensmeyer, author of Terror in the Mind of God: Global Rise of Religious Violence, states in his book that in Bray's mind "Christianity gives him the right to defend innocent unborn children, even by use of force-plainly stated Bray was committing murder to prevent murder. ... They reveal facts concerning the period in which they were written, but they do not necessarily contain literally accurate accounts of the events they report." ...

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