Cartesian Model Euthanasia

1. It is important that we take into consideration, areas other than physical pain and have an holistic approach. Pain is whatever the person who is suffering it feels it to be. Physical pain can be experienced as a result of disease or injury, or some other form of bodily distress. For example childbirth. Although not associated with injury or disease, but can be an extremely painful experience. Pain can also be social, emotional and spiritual as well as just physical.

The psychological processes in the article include pain perception, and how we as humans perceive pain, how we react to it, and how we adapt to it. The article explains the pain signaling process and how pain can be amplified. For example, when we get pricked by a needle, a signal from our finger ascends through the spinal cord to reach parts of the brain. From there, we perceive pain, then we form a pain experience. Pain perception can be resulting from several factors such as the frequency of pain input, how sensitive the CNS is, How the body reacts after brain perceives and tries to send information to the injured area. A pain experience is when we have the urge to put a band aid on our injury, or be scared to get pricked from a needle again. However, each pain experience differs from one culture to the other, moreover, one person to the other. The article is conducting a research paper about pain and pain perception in different ethnic groups.

Gertler clarifies that pain refers to the sensation and not the common cause, which is C-fibers firing in a specific area with tissue damage. (109) She asserts that pain is not essentially connected to tissue damage of a particular location, indicating to me inadequate understanding of the concept. If one pinches one's arm, though the sensation of pain may not be necessarily located in the arm, I contend that the pain felt is relevantly connected to the location pinched. Gertler provides the alleviating effect of painkillers as an example of a non-essential feature of pain. (117) Location is unlike this property, however, and is essential in conceptualizing pain. For instance, even an amputee, who had a leg removed and experiences a phantom leg-pain, is unable to describe the sensation they feel without making reference to a specific body part. Whether or not the pain is actually “located” anywhere is irrelevant, it matters only that the pain is conceptualized as having a location. Our understanding of pain relies fundamentally on where the pain is thought to be “located.” The fact that it is impossible to conceive of pain without reference to the “location” of the sensation proves that location is an essential feature of

Pain is universal. In life, everyone will feel pain; it is inevitable and cruel. Physical or emotional, insignificant or severe, it is there. The pain continues mounting into an unbearable amount of suffering. Suffering that blots out everything of worth, such as family, love, aspirations, and optimism. Hopelessness seizes any will to endure. With no way to subside or control the pain, often one will go to extremes in order to be free of it. Many take their life, in order to escape the horror. Committing suicide is a traumatizing experience for any and all involved. Life is precious. The chance to live is only given once, and cannot be taken for granted. Preventing even a single life from ending early is imperative and obligatory

This paper will define the term pain and how it pertains to the comfort theory. Next, there will be discussion from relevant literature in regards to pain. Its defining attributes will be

First pain is an everyday experiences that is expressed through the use of language and is then legitimized (Waddie, 1996). If a patient as a history of depression or chronic pain they have pain every day and the concept is used to help explain their pain. As nurse we use the concept of pain to find a base line of the pain and to assess new pain. In surgical patients they may have multiple types of pain from the incision, emotional, and history. The concept educates the nurse of the different form that pain can present itself. Pain can also guide how we treat the patient. Emotional pain would not be treated with the “so know pain pills”, but with talking or listening to patient. Concept of pain also address the different form of patient and how the nurse and patient response to it. If a patient is having somatic pain from an incision the nurse could react by applying heat or ice. Pain is what the patient says it is.

To most people, pain is a nuisance, but to others pain controls their life. The feeling discomforts us in ways that can sometimes seem almost imaginable. These feelings can lead to many different side effects if not dealt with or diagnosed. These effects can include depression, anxiety, and incredible amount of stress. The truth about pain is that it is vital to our existence. Without the nervous system responding to pain, we would have no idea if we were touching a hot stove, being stuck by a porcupine’s needles, or something else that could leave a lasting effect upon our bodies without us even knowing anything about it.

‘Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage’ (International association for the study of pain 2014). Pain can be made up of complex and subjective experiences. The experience of pain is highly personal and private, and can not be directly observed or measured from one person to the next (Mac Lellan 2006). According to the agency for health care policy and research 1992, an individuals self-report of pain is the most reliable indicator of its presence. This is also supported by Mc Caffery’s definition in 1972, when he said ‘Pain is whatever the experiencing patient says it is, existing whenever he says it does’.

“The picture of pain that emerges is that of a complex phenomenon involving factors to do with the nerves, learning, memory and emotions. It is no wonder that treating pain is still such a big challenge..” (Carstoniu, par. 6). One of the largest debates in the medical world revolves around a single word, pain. Everything about pain seems very simple when someone thinks about it as a sensation or a feeling. However, pain has many more sides than that. Pain is a disease, a feeling, and a symptoms. Pain is real and imaginary all at once. The meaning and effects of pain change according to who is experiencing it and the emotional bonds between those involved. Pain is a symptoms to those with a spinal cord injury, a disease to those with

To talk to people, to understand them, to listen to their stories and to respond to their pain. Avoiding what Elkins describes as ‘pictures of body in pain’. (Elkins, 2011). Elkins here divides pain from people and makes a clear long distance between the two notions. Similarly, I am refusing to consider that pain is what distinguishes the image, is what makes it interesting to include in my project. It is not about the pain itself. It is about the participants’ experience of pain; their words about feeling it, their expressions, their voice and their

Pain is something that connects all of us. From birth to death we can identify with each other the idea and arguably the perception of it. We all know we experience it, but what is more important is how we all perceive it. It is known that there are people out there with a ‘high’ pain tolerance and there are also ones out there with a ‘low’ pain tolerance, but what is different between them? We also know that pain is an objective response to certain stimuli, there are neurons that sense and feel pain and there are nerve impulses that send these “painful” messages to the brain. What we don’t know is where the pain

Having watched this fifty minute video on YouTube, I was shocked how drastically people believes and practices can vary from culture to culture. In Belgium, euthanasia has been legally practiced for over thirteen years, allowing its citizens, from children to elders, to choose between life and death. The scary part of this practice is that a patient himself or herself identifies a degree of suffering. In other words, in Belgium, it is up to a patient, not to a doctor or psychiatrist, to decide whether his or her pain is unbearable, which sound like absurd idea for modern American society. In this video, the perfectly healthy old lady decides that she does not want to live anymore due to the loss of

“That’s the thing about pain… it demands to be felt” John Green eloquently states in the tear-jerking novel The Fault in Our Stars. Ask anyone who read the book about the supporting character, charming Augustus Grey, and quickly witness an almost physical wave of acrimony and nostalgia pass over them. Green’s unique ability to demand compassion from the reader through his cleverly compiled diction forces the reader to feel the extreme pain his characters are faced against. Pain brings people together, pain incites movements, and pain is universal; an unavoidable affliction that every human being is destined cope with. It is something that everyone can deeply relate to from their own experience, but if it is so poignantly unpleasant, why not just take pills or have a procedure done simply to turn it off? The human race still struggles to comprehend the circuitous and convoluted biology of pain perception. This is due to the feeling of pain being influenced by numerous emotional and cognitive experiences – i.e. what one has previously identified as pain- and manifested by individualized, psychosomatic and behavioral responses – how one reacts to said sensation from past experiences. Pain however, is a vital sensory reaction necessary to stay healthy. Gaining an understanding of how the process of pain transmits through the body allows us to develop more effective medications and treatments managing the uneasiness, and discomfort of pain. The path of pain perception

When suffering gets to be too much, the severely ill have the choice of euthanasia. Euthanasia is the practice of ending an organism’s life as an act of mercy to relieve them from their agony. Even though this practice which is commonly referred to as an assisted suicide seems harmless in the grand scheme of life, it has caused a lot of controversy surrounding it. That is what makes euthanasia so interesting. There are countless different categorizations, methods, and tiny details to account for. Euthanizing the ill and weak is nothing new and has been around for centuries. This essay aims to cover all these topics and uncover the roots of euthanasia. These roots of euthanasia should be illegal because their merit is outweighed by practical and ethical reasoning.

Pain is a type of fuel that someone can resort to too keep going. Pain is a useful tool to get what you want. You can crush a person’s soul with pain or you can free it. You can be at the top of the world if you use