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1、1,Unit 3 A Crime of Compassion,2,1. If you have ever witnessed the sufferings of a dying person, tell us the feelings that the scene evoked from you. 2. Do you think doctors and nurses should do everything within their means to try to save a terminally ill patient even when they know clearly all the

2、ir efforts would mean nothing more than prolonging his suffering?,3,Topic for Discussion Euthanasia ju:nezi , or mercy killing, is one of the most controversial issues in the world. Some people maintain that one is entitled to choose when to die and how to die; some other people hold that the legali

3、zation of euthanasia might pose dangers for society, for it might be used as a pretext for murdering. Discuss the main ideas of either party and present your own view.,4,5,Argumentative Narration What Is Argumentative Narration If an essay isbasically an argumentativeone and thechief meansused for a

4、rgumentation isnarration, it is called argumentative narration. Text Analysis Huttmann begins the essay with the incident that the TV audience lodged strong accusations against her for murdering a patient she was supposed to care for. But her response does not follow immediately.,6,She withholds her

5、 response to the accusation until the last paragraph, where the audiences accusation of her is mentioned again, and her argument is presented. Most of the essay is devoted to the narration of the painful dying process of a terminally ill cancer patient, which she witnessed. Based on the narrated inc

6、ident her argument seems only a natural conclusion.,7,8,There seems to be a contradiction in the title A Crime of Compassion. What is it? There are various kinds of crimes, but criminals can be anything but compassionate. It is hardly possible to associate compassion with any crime and being compass

7、ionate with a criminal.,9,to play God to function as God, i.e. to decide when to terminate a persons life. Christians believe that only God has the right to decide when a persons life should end.,10,1.Huttmann begins her essay with a metaphor. Locate it and then explain it. (para. 3) The first sente

8、nce of para. 3: It was the Phil Donahue show where the guest is a fatted calf and the audience a 200-strong flock of vultures hungering to pick at the bones. Huttmann likens herself (the guest of the talk show) to a fatted calf, and the audience to a flock of more than 200 vultures hungering to pick

9、 at the bones. With the metaphor she intends to tell the reader that the way she handled the case of Mac was strongly disapproved of by the general public, and that theconcept of mercy killing was unacceptable to them.,11,Para.4 “Otherwise, he felt great.” He had nothing wrong but some coughing. Par

10、a.5 “without ever giving death a thought.” None of us had ever thought that Mac would die.,12,Six months isnt such a long time in the whole scheme of things, but it was long enough to see him lose his youth, his wit, his macho, his hair, his bowel and bladder control, his sense of taste and smell, a

11、nd his ability to do the slightest thing for himself. Paraphrasing: Six months shouldnt be considered a long period of time, but six months is an unbearably long passage of time when we had to see him gradually reduced from a strong and intelligent young guy to a helpless and disabled man. 在万物的发展过程中

12、，六个月并不长，但长得足以目睹他失去那么多的东西：年轻的身体、灵活的头脑、强壮的体魄、头发、控制大小便的能力、味觉和嗅觉、还有一丁点儿自理的能力。,13,When Mac had wasted away to a 60-pound skeleton When Mac had been reduced to a 60-pound skeleton waste away (of a person or a part of the body) become progressively weaker and more emaciated e.g. She is dying of AIDS, visib

13、ly wasting away. He became ill and began to waste away.,14,i.v. solutions i.v. is the abbreviation of intravenous, meaning within a vein, and i.v. solutions refers to the liquid substances infused directly into the vein of a patient for therapeutic purposes.,15,Para.6 “When Mac had wasted away to a

14、sixty-pound skeleton kept alive by liquid food we poured down a tube, I.V. solutions we dripped into his veins, and oxygen we piped to a mask on his face, he begged us: Mercy for Gods sake, please just let me go.” Suffering the disease, Mac was much weaker than before who cannot live without the ins

15、truments or medical substances. The treatment itself is a torture also. Mac could not bear the agony anymore and pleaded for death.,16,work their miracles: resuscitate the patient who has stopped breathing, make the patient who almost dies alive again. Its a miracle process.,17,irrigate the big crat

16、ers of bedsores The verb irrigate normally means to supply water to land or crops to help growth. In medicine, the word can be used to mean to apply a continuous flow of water or medication to an organ or a wound.,18,suction the lung fluids that threatened to drown him drain the excessive lung fluid

17、s that threaten his life,19,Where in the essay can we find descriptions of Macs condition when he was being treated? Why do you think Huttmann is being so specific and detailed? (paras. 6 include an element in a story, an artistic work, etc. Some golden threads are woven into the fabric. Argumentati

18、ve paragraphs are naturally woven into Huttmanns narration.,22,And every night I prayed that Mac would die, that his agonized eyes would never again plead with me to let him die. Paraphrasing: Every night I spoke to God, wishing that He could let Mac go peacefully so that he would no longer look at

19、me so painfully, begging me not to let him suffer anymore.,23,to be liable for negligence to be held responsible for failing to perform my duty be liable for to be responsible for by law, to be legally answerable to be liable to be likely to do or to be something, likely to experience sth. (unpleasa

20、nt) e.g. Once you have contacted the credit card protection scheme, you are no longer liable for any loss that might occur. He is suffering from hypertension(高血压) and thus is liableto fall if he gets up too suddenly. The low-lying areas are liable to floods during the rainy season.,24,To not do it i

21、sto be liable for negligence, at least in the eyes of many people, including some nurses. Paraphrasing: If we fail or refuse to resuscitate him, we are likely to be sued for criminal negligence, and at least many people, including some of our nurses, believe that we should be thus punished by law.,2

22、5,8.晚上我回到家试图擦洗掉已经渗透到我工作服的腐烂的肉的味道。它在我的头发里，在我汽车座位的垫子里洗也洗不掉。每天晚上我祈求着他万分痛苦的双眼不要再恳求我让他死去。 9.每天早上我都去向医生请求一个不再紧急治疗的命令。没有那个命令的话，我们就不得不去抢救每个已经停止了呼吸的病人。他（Mac)的医生就是其中一个相信只要有方法和知识去抢救病人，就一定要延长他们的生命的。不这么做就等于要对自己的疏忽负责任，最起码在有些人的眼里，这也包括一些护士。我想着如果Mac停止了呼吸而我没有按动那个救援的按钮，那么当我被控告作为一个杀人者，站在法官面前时，这一切会变得怎么样。,26,when no amount of pain medication stilled h