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Presentation planning document
Submit to: **TOK teacher** Session: **May 2013** School number: **000357** School name: **DULWICH COLLEGE SHANGHAI**

Candidate name: Candidate session number: 000357 _ _ _ _ Title of presentation:

1. What is the real life situation under consideration?

// Proposed construction of a 'euthanasia' roller-coaster by a design student - received international acclaim for the idea. //

2. What is the TOK knowledge issue that will be the focus of your presentation? (This must be expressed as a question.)

// Should a person have individual control over their own mortality? //

3. Write a summary in note form (for example, a bullet point list), of the way you plan to deal with knowledge issues during your presentation).

Intro- Explains the designer/ architect - his proposal

The current state of construction - his own view and reasons and why it hasn't been built yet.

In all cultures there are examples of assisted suicide, not just specific to one. Multiple religions dictate the value of life and the consequences of taking it.

AOKs Science - Pain relief, life span, painless deaths. Social Sciences/Human Sciences - Tourism to switzerland, establishment of companies which soley deal with providing an area for assisted suicide to be carried out. The cost of keeping someone alive vs. killing them ( cost of medication to kill effectively vs. medication to keep someone alive)

Statistics - Actual numbers of people travelling/participating, conviction rates. Distances travelled to attend clinics.

The morality of business to cater to this - out of kindness or greed?

Famous cases in history of mercy killing, the policy of mercy killing in times of war... killing wounded soldiers rather than letting them suffer shame/pain.

Does the socio-economic state of the world affect the morality of persons and the judgement? Animal euthanasia

Current laws in the proposed building country. Current laws in home country of architect - exceptions in other countries e.g. Switzerland, UK where it's a grey area. Humanity of judges/prosecutors - Hipocrisy. sentences which have been dealt out - public consensus on this...

What is the difference between the legal act of turning off life support vs. feeding pills to cause death.

Individual hospital policy vs. the humanity of nurses/doctors - Empathy.

The people who break the law - selfless or inhumane?

Personal opinion and bias

Both of us would agree that we as individuals would want someone to be able to kill us should we be in-able ourselves due to dehabilitating factors. As teenagers we don't have financial factors, the affect of our death on depandants. For Catholocsim suicide is immoral as it takes a life that is not yours to take, wheras an atheist would not be restricted by a religious moral code.


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