Euthanasia

This course will scrutinise various  arguments for and against euthanasia. Through different genres - articles, short stories, poems, plays, a documentary and a film - we will investigate how the ethics of the topic is communicated.Furthermore, it is a possibility to look into euthanasia in a Nazi context, when the term was used as a euphemism for a clandestine murder program, which targeted the systematic killing of mentally and physically disabled patients during World War II.

A panel debate will wind up the course. Here the students will be asked to assume a certain stand towards euthanasia.