That situation was a little different but not by much. In the Quinlan case, the matter was more of a legal matter as the family wanted to discontinue care but the doctors refused to do so out of concern of legal and criminal liability (Ball, 2006)
Regardless, medical professionals and personnel delving into the moral and religious decisions and feelings of patients is a very slippery slope and is something that should be avoided at all costs. This does not mean that doctors and nurses should oblige the right to die for someone that wants it but foisting religious and moral views on patients and families of the same is also less than wise (Beauchamp & Childress, 2013)
There are indeed some people who hold themselves to be moral relativists and thus will not hold anyone else's choices against them. However, suicide can and does harm the mental state and well-being of others and thus this begs the question whether suicide should be allowed even if it seems like the best or only option to reasonably choose (Behuniak, 2011; Hendry et al
Indeed, she felt the outcome was not in doubt but she wanted to control the timing of it. The Netherlands and Belgium have taken different stances in recent years but the United Kingdom has been more stubborn on the subject (Chetwynd, 2004)
Once they have passed away they have no more suffering but the length of suffering that they must endure during the time between when they get sick and when they actually die is often excruciatingly painful not only for them physically and emotionally but for their families emotional well-being as well. Individuals that are permitted to pass away peacefully and in a dignified manner will be much less likely to take their own lives in any type of cruel or unpleasant way or prolong the suffering of themselves or their families beyond what is necessary to get affairs in order and say final goodbyes to everyone (Battin, 1994)
Still another argument against physician-assisted suicide is that the trust that patients and doctors have in one another would be strongly undermined (Rogatz, 2001). This is not technically accurate, however, because a fatal dose of medication is not given to the patient by the doctor (Brock, 1997)
There should be more merciful and less painful means of taking care of this type of pain and suffering for individuals that are truly not going to get any better and wish for a peaceful and dignified death. The argument could be made that people just die and there is no real difference but there is a strong difference between a good death and a bad one (Brody, 1992)
There is no concern that the doctor will be coming in to kill the patient at some appointed hour. Individuals that are dying of some kind of terminal disease sometimes take their own lives early on in the disease to spare the pain and suffering that may come for themselves and their families at a later date (Callahan, 1990)
These individuals also lose much of their dignity and many of the things that they feel made them human in the past have been lost to them. Because of this many of these individuals seek out physician-assisted suicide so that they may end their lives with at least some dignity left (Dworkin, 1993)
There are physicians in Oregon where physician-assisted suicide is legal that have helped patients in this way, and many have branded them as murderers (Rogatz, 2001). This is odd because withdrawing treatment that is life-sustaining such as removing a ventilated or feeding tube is generally accepted by most of society (Kass, 1993)
Not only do these patients that wish to partake of physician-assisted suicide have concerns about their own declining physical and mental abilities but many of them are also concerned about financial burdens that are placed on their family, losing control of what it is that they are able to do with their lives, and being alone and in pain in later years as a disease progresses (Rogatz, 2001). It has long been a cultural norm that medicine is designed to preserve life for as long as possible (Orentlicher, 1997)
Jack Kevorkian, that feel that they are capable of this type of practice in order to help the suffering of their patients. Some patients actually request this because they cannot be helped by any modern means to get better in any way and the pain that they are going through in the process of dying is simply too great for them to bear (Rogatz, 2001)
Naturally, most individuals wish to live a long and productive life but if given the choice between having 50 good years of life or 70 years of life where the last part was a struggle, many people would choose to die sooner and have a good death rather than live longer and have a painful life. It was not all that long ago that individuals were granted the right to ask that life-saving treatments be withheld (Snyder & Sulmasy, 2001)
In all of the other states these bills have been defeated (Snyder & Sulmasy, 2001). Some other countries have also legalized physician-assisted suicide (Thomasma, 1996)
It is hard to fathom why the prescribing of a medication to induce a peaceful and tranquil death would be seen as murder when removing a ventilator or other life-sustaining support is not seen in that same way. In either aspect the patient dies and the doctor is the one who has assisted in this (Wellman, 2001)
It is hard to fathom why the prescribing of a medication to induce a peaceful and tranquil death would be seen as murder when removing a ventilator or other life-sustaining support is not seen in that same way. In either aspect the patient dies and the doctor is the one who has assisted in this (Wellman, 2001)
PAS enjoys legal status exclusively in the state of Oregon. (Braddock; Tonelli, 1998) While the present age's middle-aged men and women were of less age, people normally died "when their time was ripe" as per the cliche
Nevertheless, in the present era, the problem of suicide is actively discussed, mainly due to remarkable progress in medical technology since the last thirty years. (Carr, 1995) In majority of the states, as well as Washington State, abetting a suicide is an offense whereas suicide or attempted suicide itself is not considered as illegal
(Should an incurably-ill patient be able to commit physician-assisted suicide?) a case has been made that even though cautious and dependable professional behavior relating to assisted suicide is being given and reasonable safety procedures as well for the patients concerned, likely survivors and community in totality are been taken into account, a lot of cases exist where the anticipated excellence is a distant dream, therefore assistance with suicide becomes very risky. (Diekstra, 1995) Conclusion To conclude, the present argument regarding euthanasia and assisted suicide possesses the capability to make out society into a unilateral one, however it can also have an encouraging influence in case it assists us concentrate on the urgency to produce a humanizing effect on medicines and the treatment of the fatal patients
(Carr, 1995) Pros of assisted suicide Supporters of abetted suicide reason that the choice regarding culmination of life comes within the most close and individual problems which anybody will ever encounter, which nobody can probably be more fit than the person who is suffering to arrive at such decisions, and that the person thus must have the liberty to choose when the lumber of persistent suffering offsets the advantages of sustained living. (Gates, 1997) it has been reasoned that a majority of physicians have had patients with later stage of cancer, terminal cardiac malfunction, extreme persistent obstructive pulmonary disease or other immobilizing and traumatizing ailments