He had compassion and humanity for others including his wife of 22 years. ... This movement led Derek to found the Hemlock Society five years later and today the organization is well known as the "Compassion in Dying and End-of-Life Choices organization.... He truly believed that ethics and death comes hand-in-hand in relieving the suffering of those who need compassion the most. ... The right to die is defined as the putative right for a person to decide not to be kept alive by heroic means and die with dignity [Def14]. ...

• Word Count: 5515
• Approx Pages: 22
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In both the novel and the film, the setting plays an integral role in defining the imagery. ... The landscape, incorporated into Cesira's history, bears witness to her development from instinct and bloodshed to sorrow and compassion (Dego104). ...

• Word Count: 2867
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The tension between civilization and savagery lies at the heart of this play. Each character experiences the competing impulses that exist within all human beings: the instinct to live morally, act peacefully, follow the true and the good or the instinct to satisfy one's immediate desires, act viole...

• Word Count: 2877
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Oxford English Dictionary defines suicide as the act of taking one's own life; it originates from the Latin word suicidium when broken down sui, means of oneself, while cidium, is equivalent to the suffix -cide which means killer ("Suicide"). The Oxford English Dictionary also defines assisted suicide as suicide effected with the assistance of another person ("Assisted suicide"). ... An international panel of the World Health Organization defined palliative care as "the active total care of patients whose disease is not responsive to curative therapies" (qtd. in Foley 293). ...

• Word Count: 4057
• Approx Pages: 16
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

According to Dictionaries, blindness is defined as "unable to see and lacking of sight, but blindness that Shakespeare demonstrate is not only a physical inability but also a mental flaw that both characters present in the play. ...

• Word Count: 3449
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School