Jack Smith English 120 Jun 30, 2013 Professor Tail Should assisted suicide be an option for the elderly who wish to die? My grandfather had suffered from the untreatable and painful disease called brain cancer, when he was 80 years old. He was diagnosed with cancer tumors in his brain when he was taken to hospital due to a strong seizure. When he was completely diagnosed with brain cancer, it was already too late for physicians to cure him because the tumors have spread all over his brain and they had grown too large in size, so the only option left to Doctors in order to keep him alive was too give him chemotherapy. Since the chemotherapy was the last option, my grandfather did not have any other choice, but to go through the pain
The death will not be sudden and they will get to say their final goodbyes. The family will be able to say what they want to the patient before they’re euthanized as well as hold their hands and be with them during the final moments. Finally, the family knows the patient’s death was peaceful and what they wanted. The members of the family are at ease knowing the patient died where and when they wanted with loved ones surrounding them. Brittany Maynard said “I will die upstairs in my bedroom with my husband, mother and stepfather and best friend peacefully.” She used doctor assisted suicide to die at the age of 29 after being diagnosed with a malignant brain
People who are living their last lives as a vegetable should have the right to die, and those who have a terminally illness such as cancer should have the right to die. According to a news article posted on focus on the family “There is a story regarding a 29 year old woman Brittany Maynard who has a cancer in her brain and they are letting her die in her own home on Nov 1st, her plans are to take a pill that is given by her DR. to end her own death and to avoid hospice care and to end her pain and suffering.” She wants her story to go viral so other people who are suffering with a terminally illness they can do the same. Her guest name is Kara Tippets and she also wrote a book called “The Hardest Peace” III. What makes Assisted Suicide a wrong choice? A.
It is the duties and responsibility of a doctor to assist a dying patient in having a comfortable, easy death, which in some cases may call for physician-assisted suicide, assuming it is the patient’s wish. When patients decide to end their lives, because of sickness they are tired of suffering, it would be much better for them to be able to do so in a peaceful way. This will provides the dying patients with dignity and grace as they leave this
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.
Since patients and families frequently ask nurses to provide information about support in dying, it is important for nurses to thoroughly understand the topic of physician assisted suicide regardless of whether it is legally permitted within the State where they are working (Ersek, 2004). The purpose of this paper is to describe benefits and disadvantages of assisted suicide and to discuss the ethical reasoning behind both of these opposing viewpoints. Review of Literature Throughout the literature, there are many arguments that support the prohibition of physician assisted suicide. One of the most obvious arguments is that health care providers are The Journal of Undergraduate Nursing Writing. 4:1.
My reason is that if a person is ready to die, and has made peace with the fact that they are terminally ill, never to be cured, and has also discussed it with family, then why should that person be forced to live against their will, and have their life prolonged? My decision on this matter comes from my grandfather. Long story short, he and my grandmother both fell at home within twelve hours of each other, they were taken to the local hospital, spent a few days and were then taken to a nursing home, where my grandfather felt that he was now less of a man because he could no longer provide for his wife and kids, in which he slowly gave up. Towards the end he was on oxygen and his extremities were filling with water, making him very uncomfortable. Numerous times he said that he was ready to die, but the nursing home decided to keep him alive, all the while he was suffering.
An individual’s decision should be theirs and theirs alone to make. In the article written by Angela Morrow (2010) it is stated that 40-70% of patients die in pain (p.1). To these individuals, death is a welcome event and permanently relieves suffering and a burden on family and loved ones. It is their own body, their own human experience and their own spiritual journey. Another example of personal decisions with right to die choices drew national attention when Artist Jo Roman, a terminally ill cancer patient, committed suicide at a public gathering
The most common desire among those with a terminal illness is to die with some measure of dignity. From advance directives to physician-assisted dying, death with dignity is a movement to provide options for the dying to control their own end-of-life care. Physician-assisted suicide isn't about physicians becoming killers. It's about patients whose suffering can’t be relieved and about not turning away from them when they ask for help. Will there be physicians who feel they can't do this?
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