Going back to Kant, dignity refers to the importance of treating people like ends, not means. At times, dignity is lumped together with the right of self-determination. I agree with supporters of Washingtonâs law that physician assisted suicide can be part of a dignified death. But there are plenty of other ways for terminally ill patients to control the circumstances of their death, making it wrong to equate dignity with suicide.
Definitions for desperateness. Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word desperateness. Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: desperateness(Noun) The state or quality of being desperate.
Desperation (novel) Desperation is a horror novel by Stephen King. It was published in 1996 at the same time as its mirror novel, The Regulators. It was made into a TV film starring Ron Perlman, Tom Skerritt and Steven Weber in 2006. The two novels represent parallel universes relative to one another, and most of the characters present in one novel's world also exist in the other novel's reality, albeit in different circumstances. Desperation is a story about several people who, while traveling along the desolate