Life/Death Issues (Research) ; Pro Life, Pro Choice, Ritual Suicide, Jack Kevorkian

Pro-Life is the self-description for those in North America and Great Britain who are of the general political opinion that abortion, embryonic stem cell research, human cloning and other issues regarding the sanctity of life are morally wrong and should be illegal in most cases
Pro-Choice people are people who believe that the government should not outlaw abortion and believe that the choice of terminating pregnancy should be an option for pregnant women use a common self-description.

Ritual suicide is the act of suicide motivated by a religious, spiritual, or traditional ritual.
An extreme interpretation of Hindu custom historically practiced, mostly 2000 onwards, was self-immolation (suttee) by a widow as an assurance that she will be with her husband for the next life. This is displayed as she burns herself at her husband’s funeral or prior to that.

Other rituals of self-immolation or self-starvation were used by Hindu, Jain and Buddhist monks for religious or philosophical purposes, or as a form of extreme non-violent protest. In China, some groups would practice suicide for similar reasons.

In Japan, rituals of suicide like seppuku were practiced. Zooming into case of Japan, Seppuku was popular in the sense as people considered death much better than dishonor. It involves the disembowelment with the use of a sword.

Jack Kevorkian a.k.a Dr. Death has assisted many people in committing suicide. He believes that everybody have the right to decide if they should live or die and there should not be any interference from the government laws.

Jack Kevorkian sits with his "suicide machine," a device consisting of tubes, hypodermic needles, saline solution, a muscle relaxant, and a lethal drug.