Last updated on:
7/30/2009 |
Author: ProCon.org
Russel Ogden, MA Biography
- Title:
- Criminology Instructor, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
- Position:
- Pro to the question "Should Euthanasia or Physician-Assisted Suicide Be Legal?"
- Reasoning:
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“I submit that it is cruel and inhumane to refuse individuals trapped in a private holocaust access to a compassionate release in a manner consistent with their moral beliefs and personal values…
People who do not ask for euthanasia will not have it. Individuals are autonomous, entitlted to equality and justice, and self-determined. The right to choose is theirs and that is a choice that must always be respected.”
“The Right to Die: A Rejoinder to Bruce Wilkinson’s Critique,” Canadian Public Policy, 1995
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Organizations/VIPs/Others
Individuals and organizations that do not fit into the other star categories. - Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Criminology Instructor, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
- Member, British Columbia Civil Liberties Association
- Former Member, British Columbia Association of Social Workers
- Recipient, Celebration of Excellence award, Surrey Campus, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, 2006
- Recipient, Sterling Prize in Support of Controversy, 1995
- Education:
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- PhD candidate, University of Groningen (Holland)
- MA, Criminology, Simon Fraser University (Canada), 1994
- BGS (Bachelor of General Studies), Simon Fraser University
- BSW (Bachelor of Social Work), University of Victoria
- Other:
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- Was a claimant in Russel Ogden v. Simon Fraser University (Provincial Court of British Columbia, June 10, 1998), a case resulting from Odgen’s failure to provide the Vancouver Coroner with evidence of an assisted suicide mentioned in his Master’s thesis; Odgen cited a promised confidentiality of those interviewed for the thesis; he became the first researcher in Canada ever to have researcher-participant privilege recognized in common law.
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