Advancing the Right-to-Die: A World-Wide Electronic Discussion Group
Since this is the Experimental College of the Twin Cities,
as an experiment, we will try an on-line class.
This electronic seminar joins individuals sitting at their computers.
Participants can join the discussion any time or the day or night.
This cyber-seminar has now been adopted
by a Facebook Group called The Right to Die with Dignity.
This group already has over 1,000 members.
Our discussions will take place by means of its Discussion Board.
We will proceed with the ten announced themes listed below,
beginning a new discussion each month:
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?
A comprehensive course description appears here on the Internet:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/E-RTD.html
This link leads you to the 10 discussion-starters named above.
After one year of discussion (2010),
the series of discussions has been extended
to the middle of 2011.
The full list of subjects appears at the link above.
And it explains how to join the Facebook Group
so that you can participate in this cyber-seminar on the right-to-die.
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
{updated 2-12-2011}
(updated 7-9-2011, when this class was completed)
EXCO class begins in cyber-space 1-1-2010
Hello EXCO people interested in Advancing the Right-to-Die,
As explained above, our electronic discussion has now begun.
The discussion theme for January 2010 is:
"The One-Month-Less Club:
Live Well Now, Omit the Last Month".
There are only 8 members of this EXCO group,
but the Facebook Group holding these discussions
already has more than 1,000 members.
You join that Facebook Group
to respond to the discussion-starter for January.
Just look for this theme on the Discussion Board.
The discussion-starter for January 2010
is also available on the Internet:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/CY-1MLC.html
Yours,
James Park, EXCO facilitator
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