General background: Obscure death (OD) is a medicolegal dilemma which had not been well covered in the literature. It could be a real OD if there is no cause was achieved after having all relevant data and conducting a complete standard autopsy followed by a series of complementary investigations. Moreover, it could also be relative OD if one or more of those important procedures or investigations were not performed, whatever were the circumstances. OD is a multifactorial problem, caused by various factors involved such as cadaveric, autopsy, laboratory, financial, legislation, and local regulations In fact, obscurity of death includes undetermined mechanism, cause, and mode of death. There are a lot of factors or difficulties, which could interact and leads to situation of cul-de-sac, i.e., obscure death. However, our present talk is a general discussion.
In a democracy, journalists are expected to safeguard the public interest and to provide truth and accountability to citizens. The media should not function as a megaphone for someone else's agenda. It is meant to have an active place in society. But the career span of an investigative reporter is relatively short, and maintaining the freedom from censorship, in Sean Holman's case at least, means going it alone as a freelancer. Unfortunately, the rise and fall of Public Eye demonstrates that independent investigative journalism is not a sustainable practice in Canada. Times Colonist reporter Lindsay Kines shares Holman's convictions regarding the media's watchdog function. To do good investigative reporting a journalist needs at least three to four months to focus on a story. But that is not good business – a lesson that Holman learned the hard way after receiving only $500 for his 2004 Jack Webster Award-winning five-month investigation into what became known as the Doug Walls affair.
Death is an inevitable phenomenon, which implies the termination of the life of persons. All over the world, in a day, a large number of children are born, but unfortunately also a large number of people die because of illness, age, homicide, suicide or poverty. Death is not only a biological process, as at the same time it affects directly the legal capacity of a person. Therefore the natural death of the person is seen as a cause that brings legal consequences at its verification. Being considered as a natural phenomenon as well as legal, death is considered as a legal fact with which legislations bind the beginnings, changes or terminations of legal. Legal capacity of a person, as a condition to undertake rights and obligations, is the determining element to gain the quality of a natural person. This quality is gained with the birth and terminated with the death. There are special cases, under which it is difficult to verify the natural death of a person for reasons such as: absence of the cadaver or the uncertainty of the circumstances in which the person has been lost or absented. In order to guarantee the legal security and also the conservation of personal and property rights of the person, legislations have provided the declaration of the person dead, which may come as a result of natural disasters, accidents, military actions or as a consequence of declaring before the person missing. This paper aims to make a comparative analysis between the procedure of declaration of a natural death of the person and the procedure of declaring a person dead according to the Albanian legislation. For this reason it will be analyzed the persons who are entitled to make the request for the declaration of the person dead, the legal force of the decision of the court through which the person is declared dead and the necessary time limits for declaring a person dead. DOI:10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n22p320
General background: Obscure death (OD) is a medicolegal dilemma which had not been well covered in the literature. It could be a real OD if there is no cause was achieved after having all relevant data and conducting a complete standard autopsy followed by a series of complementary investigations. Moreover, it could also be relative OD if one or more of those important procedures or investigations were not performed, whatever were the circumstances. OD is a multifactorial problem, caused by various factors involved such as cadaveric, autopsy, laboratory, financial, legislation, and local regulations In fact, obscurity of death includes undetermined mechanism, cause, and mode of death. There are a lot of factors or difficulties, which could interact and leads to situation of cul-de-sac (a blind diverticulum or pouch), i.e., obscure death. However, our present talk is a general discussion.
This Comment analyzes the federal death penalty. Part one discusses the history of the federal death penalty, from its roots in the superstitions and religious dogma of colonial America to the Drug Kingpin Act and the Federal Death Penalty Act of 1994. Part two examines the Drug Kingpin Act, the first federal move into the death penalty arena since the landmark Supreme Court case of Furman v. Georgia. Next, the Comment explores Congress' broad expansion of the federal death penalty in its most recent statute, the Federal Death Penalty Act of 1994. Part four examines the practical application of the Drug Kingpin Act in the case of Juan Raul Garza, the man who likely will be the first federal execution of the twenty-first century. Part four also contemplates the constitutionality of the federal death penalty, focusing on the recent Supreme Court case of Jones v. United States, the first treatment of the new death penalty law by this nation's highest court. Finally, part five considers the implications, pragmatic and political, of renewed federal executions.
Fear of life, fear of death, and fear of causing death form a combination that prevents reasoned changes in laws concerning end-of-life situations. This is shown systematically in this article using the methods of conceptual analysis. Prevalent fears are explicated and interpreted to see how their meanings differ depending on the chosen normative stance. When the meanings have been clarified, the impact of the fears on the motivations and justifications of potential legislative reforms are assessed. Two main normative stances are evoked. The first makes an appeal to individual self-determination, or autonomy, and the second to the traditional professional ethics of physicians. These views partly share qualifying elements, including incurability and irreversibility of the patient's medical condition, proximity of death, the unbearable nature of suffering, and issues of voluntariness further shade the matter. The conclusion is that although many motives to change end-of-life laws are admirable, they are partly contradictory, as are calls for autonomy and appeals to professional ethics; to a degree that good, principled legislative solutions remain improbable in the foreseeable future. ; Peer reviewed
The family is the source of the gift of love to each individual. The family is the considered as the main source of life to every person, society and state. The family relations are regulated based on the principles of free will of the man and the woman, of equality of spouses in the family, by mutual agreement in solving internal family, the priority of family education of children, by ensuring a better future to the children. The evolution of the family concept from the old Roman Law to the now days concept of the foreign legislations is main topic of the first part of the paper. The aim of this paper is the treatment of the effects of the end of marriage by natural death compared to the effects caused by the declaration of death. The paper brings a comparison of the effects on the end of marriage by the declaration of death of one of the spouses. This paper aims to give an answer to the following questions; Will marriage still exist in case one of the spouses will be declared dead? which will be the effects on the marriage and on the other spouse if one of the spouses is declared dead? What happens if the declared reappears?
When the Supreme Court is deciding death, how much does law matter? Scholars long have lamented the majoritarian nature of the Court's Eighth Amendment "evolving standards of decency" doctrine, but their criticism misses the mark. Majoritarian doctrine does not drive the Court's decisions in this area; majoritarian forces elsewhere do. To make my point, I first examine three sets of "evolving standards" death penalty decisions in which the Court implicitly or explicitly reversed itself, attacking the legal justification for the Court's change of position and offering an extralegal explanation for why those cases came out the way they did. I then use political science models of Supreme Court decisionmaking to explain how broader social and political forces push the Court toward majoritarian death penalty rulings for reasons wholly independent of majoritarian death penalty doctrine. Finally, I bring the analysis full circle, showing how broader sociopolitical forces even led to the development of the "evolving standards" doctrine. In the realm of death penalty decisionmaking, problematic doctrine is not to blame for majoritarian influences; rather, majoritarian influences are to blame for problematic doctrine. The real obstacle to countermajoritarian decisionmaking is not doctrine, but the inherently majoritarian tendencies of the Supreme Court itself
The issues surrounding assisted suicide and euthanasia are now being debated in a new forum, the Internet. Death-NET, the creation of two activists from Canada and the US, provides up-to-date information on court cases and legislation concerning these topics. In Canada, the federal government appears reluctant to bring the issues to a vote in the House of Commons, but John Hofsess, one of DeathNET's founders, says politicians won't be able to duck them forever.
This introduction to the Queer Death Studies special issue explores an emerging transdisciplinary field of research. This field critically, (self-)reflexively and affirmatively investigates and challenges conventional normativities, assumptions, expectations, and regimes of truths that are brought to life and made evident by current planetary scale necropolitics and its framing of death, dying and mourning in the contemporary world. It is set against the background of traditional engagements with the question of death, often grounded in Western hegemonic and normative ideas of dying, dead and mourning subjects and bodies, on the one hand; and on the other contemporary discourses on human and nonhuman death and extinction, directly linked to the environmental crisis, capitalist and post/colonial extractivist necropolitics, material and symbolic violence, oppression and inequalities, and socio-economic, political and ecological unsustainabilities. By bringing together conceptual and analytical tools grounded in feminist materialisms and feminist theorising broadly speaking, queer theory and decolonial critique, the contributions in this special issue strive to advance queerfeminist methodologies and ontological, ethical and political understandings that critically and creatively attend to the problem of death, dying and mourning in the current environmental, cultural, and socio-political contexts. ; Funding agencies:This work was supported by The Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) International Postdoc grant number 2017–0067 ; Ecologies of Death: Environment, Body and Ethics in Contemporary Art
"We are like an admirable, wandering Numancia, who prefers to die gradually than to admit defeat" (translated from Alfonso Guerra's documentary, Exilio). Uttered during the fall of the Republican government during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), Spanish author Luis Araquistáin's ominous phrase not only speaks to the slow death of Republican hopes while in exile, but also hearkens back to a small town in the north of Spain that existed in the second century AD. Famed for its resistance to the advancing Roman armies, Numantia fell in 133 BC to Scipio Aemilianus who led the forces of the Roman Empire against the city and besieged it for eight months. Yet, even as late as the twentieth century in Spain, people could still hear references being made to this small town; the preservation of the memory of Numantia is largely due to the work of Miguel de Cervantes, who in the 1580s penned El cerco de Numancia (or simply, La destrucción de Numancia), a play based on the events of 133 BC. After Cervantes came multiple playwrights, poets, and even politicians who reinterpreted the play in various forms to communicate distinct messages. One of the most unique moments in the life of Cervantes' El cerco de Numancia came during the Spanish Civil War; during this clash between visions of the future of Spain, both Republican forces and the Nacionales of Franco utilized the image of Numantia to motivate their constituents and sway others to their cause.
Melalui artikel ini penulis menelaah peran memori kultural pada masainterkoneksi global sekarang ini. Penulis mensinyalir bahwa gagasan tradisionaltentang budaya terancam oleh "industri budaya" seperti teknologi informasi danmedia masa. Di Dunia Barat, fungsi budaya sebagai mesin perubahan dan reformasitampak tergerus oleh industri tersebut. Tapi di Asia Tenggara – khususnya Indonesia– kekuatan eksternal serta upaya internal untuk mempertahankan identitas budayalokal tetap terjaga agar berimbang. Isu ini diteropong berdasarkan perpektif Michelde Certeau. Gagasan ini ditampilkan melalui telaah kisah "kematian Semar" dalamWayang. Kesadaran akan keberimbangan antara pengaruh eksternal dan pemeliharaanbudaya internal itu sangatlah penting di dalam menyikapi jaringan kekuatan globalyang memaksakan masuknya berbagai struktur religius, politik, kekuangan danhukum ke dalam budaya Indonesia. This essay will examine the role of cultural memory in an age of globalinterconnection. It will discuss how the traditional idea of culture is threatened by the"culture industry," information technology and the media. In the West, there seemsto be a loss of culture's function as an engine of change and reform. But throughoutthe history of South East Asia (and especially in Indonesia) one sees a both a processof appropriation of ideas from the outside, and at the same time, the maintenance ofa deeper cultural identity that is resistant to complete control. It is an unconsciousmemory – or a cultural reflex – present within the languages and stories and rationalities.I will explain this with reading of Michel de Certeau . And I will show how the Wayangstory of the "Death of Semar" is emblematic of this idea. The awareness of these oldprocesses of appropriation and resistance are extremely important in our age of globalnetworks of power that attempt to impose, various religious, political, financial andlegal structures.
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The appearance of corpses in rubbish tips is not a recent phenomenon. In Argentina, tips have served not only as sites for the disposal of bodies but also as murder scenes. Many of these other bodies found in such places belong to individuals who have suered violent deaths, which go on to become public issues, or else are 'politicised deaths'. Focusing on two cases that have received diering degrees of social, political and media attention – Diego Duarte, a 15-year-old boy from a poor background who went waste-picking on an open dump and never came back, and Ángeles Rawson, a girl of 16 murdered in the middle-class neighbourhood of Colegiales, whose body was found in the same tip – this article deals with the social meanings of bodies that appear in landlls. In each case, there followed a series of events that placed a certain construction on the death – and, more importantly, the life – of the victim. Corpses, once recognised, become people, and through this process they are given new life. It is my contention that bodies in rubbish tips express – and congure – not only the limits of the social but also, in some cases, the limits of the human itse ; Fil: Perelman, Mariano Daniel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires; Argentina
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