Yates had mental instability during the time she killed her children, and after the birth of her fifth child is when she experienced postpartum depression. After she was in prison, professionals diagnosed her with insanity and postpartum depression. Genetics also played a part since there was a history of mental illness in her family. After the death of her father, she stopped doing everything she normally would do that would take care of her and her kids and Yates had become even more depressed. Yates had not realized how much mental illness there was in her
Right or Wrong - Physician Assisted Suicide Something we all can agree with-cancer is painful. “…two thirds of patients with advanced disease have significant pain, and the major reason why cancer is painful is that it invades tissues, like bone, or soft tissue like muscle, and compresses the nerves and produces pain in that way” says ABC News (Foley). Imagine that patient was your loved one fighting a chronic illness. You have watched as they have battled through the ugly side effects of chemo, radiation or some other painful intervention. Your loved one has lost weight, their hair and most of their immune system.
I explained the philosophy of comfort, which I strongly believe in Quill (692). Quills main audience is to help doctors understand there are some cases that people have the right to die with dignity. He writes about a story about a woman named Diane, in which she was diagnosed with leukemia. Diane wanted to take her life when the time came and did not want to proceed with chemotherapy. She wanted to spend what ever time she had left with her family.
I understand fully the emotional strain on watching a loved one suffer daily, because they are terminally ill. My grandfather had two different types of cancer and six strokes, so I know what it is like to see a loved one deteriorate right before your eyes. For three years, my grandfather was in a paralyzed state, and I could not bear seeing him in that condition. If my grandmother would have sought out physician-assisted suicide as an option, I would listen to her reasons in wanting to do so, and I would probably agree with her choice, because I know that she had his best interest at heart. Although it is morally wrong, I do understand why patients seek physician-assisted suicide as an option, because they feel as though they do not have any other options. Regardless of what society believes or their religious values, people forget about the rights of the terminally ill patient, and the assisting
In reality, my world fell apart as I heard my diagnosis; endometriosis. Before the operation I had thoroughly researched the condition. I could relate with many of the symptoms described by sufferers; the chronic pain, constantly feeling exhausted and painful
The fall itself causes the older adult to develop a fear of falling and impacts their everyday life. This fear could cause the individual to limit activities, which leads to lowered physical fitness. With the older adult not getting proper exercise, will in turn increase their actual risk of falling. Patient falls in hospitals will always be a major and costly problem. In 2008, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) made a new payment guideline on inpatient falls for Medicare to follow.
Rheumatoid arthritis sufferers go through the whole spectrum of pains from the acute flare up pain to the chronic continual ache and as a rule Hypnosis probably isn’t the first thing you might think of when diagnosed with something like rheumatoid arthritis. When diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis, it can be devastating. It is a lifelong condition and finding out that you have a chronic illness can send your emotions spiralling into anger and depression. For many people, this can mean a lack of sleep, mood swings and loss of appetite. Some people feel afraid of what their future might hold, the medication they might need and the loss of the self-image they had.
Physician Assisted Suicide PHI 200 Instructor Lines Kathy Probst January 21, 2012 Physician-Assisted Suicide The thoughts of someone taking another life sounds terrible, but there are pro’s and con’s to all things we do. Look at the reason why someone would want to die. Reasons could be that they are suffering from Cancer, Alzheimer’s, extreme respiratory problems, or an inoperable tumor which is causing severe pain or pressure. Whatever reason that a person would have to take their life would be a hugh relief to them if they didn’t have to suffer. Not only in their mind they are suffering but they feel that their family is also.
During this time “divorce rates were higher than average and 38% reported that their marriage failed within 6 months of returning home. Suicide rates were also higher than average, almost 20- 25 % higher than the Australian average”. However few of the veterans had supportive friends or family when they came back, as Len had a wife who supported him as well has Barry who got advice from Wendy, when he was going through hard
Of course, this is a strange pursuit because it requires searching for a propensity while at the same time it has always being inside me. One evening, when I returned from school I found out that my Aunt had gone through Uterine artery embolization. She was lying in bed with severe pain, prescribed with a couple of narcotics to control it. Despite being warned by the doctor of the pain she will go through if she lives the hospital after the procedure, she was forced to leave for the fear of how much it will cost her to stay overnight. I tended to the needs of my ill aunt and during this period of time, the idea of playing nurse never crossed my mind; rather, care giving was a way of life.