RUNNING HEAD: RIGHT TO DIE Right to Die Roseann Martin PHI 208: Ethics and Moral Reasoning Instructor: Susan Smith 6/24/2014 RUNNING HEAD: RIGHT TO DIE 1 End of life medical issues are a very controversial topic. Everyone has their own opinion and ethical stand point on the right to die or die with dignity issue. This is an issue I personally feel very strong about. I worked in nursing homes as a certified nursing assistant for a long time. I have seen the health and quality of life of people deteriorate every day.
The day she found out her father had been shot and placed in a coma, one she was told he may never awake. Her heart rate increased as she’d waited for the bad news to come. PC Dawson took a deep breath and explained how they’d been called out on a job and shot in the middle of a drug bust. Covering her mouth, she started to whimper before her legs gave way beneath her and the darkness enveloped her. She prayed for hours every morning and night of everyday hoping that he would wake up to wipe away her tears and tell her everything
During the interview Brittany Maynard’s demeanor is very humbleness. Watching the video, Brittany does a good explanation of her life behind the scenes. When people criticize her for taking her own life because she doesn’t look terminal ill. She stated “people say you don’t look as sick as you are.” People underestimate how detrimental cancer can be, how hard seizures can be to handle, and how it can affect your friends and family. Maynard stated in the video, “I remember looking at my husbands face at one point and thinking this is my husband but I can’t say his name.” She is still a positivist is a way. Saying, “If my
In the article Schouten states “You tell the nurse that your son must be seen by a doctor immediately – it’s an emergency! – As his condition is worsening by the minute. The nurse tells you, stone-faced, to go and sit in the waiting room to wait for a triage nurse. Having no choice, you do what you are told and join twenty or so
For many people the main concern with assisted suicide goes with the competence of the sick patients. Many of the ones that are in the final stages of their lives have requested doctors to help them in exercising active euthanasia. It is sad to realize that these people are about to die and that to them the only hope they got is through assisted suicide in order to end their suffering. But the thing that really matters is what they want for themselves, if they want to end with their lives because there is nothing else to be done and they don’t want to suffer more than they should have the right to commit suicide since that’s what they want for their lives. The most important thing that everyone should think about is dying happy, maybe all of the people that have committed assisted suicide, left this world feeling better since they don’t have to suffer more.
My mother had a best friend whose husband was killed in the attacks; apparently he was trapped in the first tower when it collapsed. So, we were visiting that family a lot, and comforting them whenever we could. But what really hit me hard was that this was just one family. After the attacks that day, hundreds and hundreds of people lost loved ones to one of the most brutal and barbaric attacks in human history. I was only in the 2nd grade at the time when the attacks happened, but I still knew how awful it would be to come home from school and find out that one of your parents were killed in a mass murder.
Although Sandra was not conscious and could not make choices herself, the staff tried contacting her next of kin, when they were unreachable they took matters into their own hands to help Sandra. It was not noted in the case study what happened after medical attention was given to Sandra, but it was in good faith that the doctor choose to give Sandra medical attention right away due to the severity of her wounds. Dignity often rises from one person to the next and in this case I feel all three ethical principles were
It was also hard for the girl to feel at ease with her natural parents. After experiencing many family issues, I come to realize that being a father or parent is not the ability to give birth; but good parenting is really the time that one takes to love, care and raising a child. The ability to give birth can make one a dad or mom but it does not make you a parent. I would definitely empathize with the foster family for the grief and suffering this rapture may have caused to their family. I would also empathize with the daughter for being traumatized by this tragedy.
Other nurses and staff members are not this strong, opting to go elsewhere to only do their ‘fair share’. These nurses say that their families deserve their time as well as the patients and they feel that they are unable to equally divide their time with family if they are physically and mentally drained every day. High staffing turnover leaves another problem for the administrator. Making sure not to hire people of a certain character out of desperation is a different type of challenge for the administrator. Those people that are labeled as elder abusers, thieves or predators cannot be a part of the staff in these facilities and must carefully be weeded out of the hiring process.
Assisted Suicide PHI 200 Steven Carter February 27, 2012 Assisted Suicide Dealing with a painful and a long terminal illness is hard on everyone involved especially the person whom this is happening to. Susan Wolf’s article, “Confronting Physician-Assisted suicide and Euthanasia: My Father’s Death”, was very emotional and expressed the changes a dying person makes as the pain and all the treatments become too much to handle, especially when it is determined nothing else can be done. If this had been one of my parents, I would have dealt with the situation the same way that Susan Wolf did. I had an aunt that suffered with colon cancer and I agree that the most important thing to do is to keep the person comfortable and do only