Displacing Suffering Analysis

Kahn’s purpose in writing this essay is to explore the ill mentioned side of organ transplants, organ removal. In the preface to the essay, Kahn talks a little of what drove her to write the essay, which she reveals to be an assignment to observe and write on the process of organ transplants. The article was supposed to praise how far we have come in the field of medicine in the last few centuries. Instead Kahn found the whole process to be strangely primitive in comparison to other modern, more streamlined procedures. To convince her audience of such a hard to sell point Kahn made sure to utilize the three rhetorical appeals, ethos, pathos, and logos. Kahn uses ethos (credibility) quite often, as she utilizes quotes by multiple

“Is it worse to kill someone than to let someone die?” – James Rachels. At the end of the disagreement, many philosophers say euthanasia, also known as physician-assisted suicide, is a compassionate method of death. At the other side are the opponents of euthanasia, who may consider this technique as a form of murder. In this paper, I will show that it is not important to know the distinction between killing and letting die on request which is performed by a physician. Both killing and letting die on request are similar because it is based on the controversial issue called euthanasia also known as physician-assisted suicide.

What kinds of questions does human suffering raise? There are many different questions that pertain to human suffering. Here are some of those questions; “What is good?, What is evil?, Do absolute good and evil exist?, Is human suffering the result of the evil in human nature?, Why must humans suffer?, and Why does the all-powerful God allow evil things to happen?

“One of the obligations for nursing staff and everyone is to take care of the dead body whose perfused organs are being maintained by machines”, a panelist interjected. Many hospitals have policies whereby if one is hired by the hospital and has a personal, moral, or religious objection to certain things, then every effort will be made for someone else to participate – termination of pregnancy serves as an example, he continued. Furthermore, he emphasized that there does not have to be a conscientious objection on the part of the doctors or nurses based on spiritual, philosophical, or religious grounds; it’s solely based on not being required to give treatments that one believes are futile. As another member put it succinctly, “You can recuse yourself from performing such duties”. Moreover, the idea of futility is a vague idea, mentioned a panelist; he stressed that in this particular instance, regarding the woman’s brain-death state, this is totally futile. The whole idea behind a religious exemption is, as he put it: “You are not dead based on spiritual grounds. The family believes that it is not actual death – it is not cardiopulmonary death”. In addition, the doctor emphasized that many health practitioners also hold the same religious ideals and would conclude that the person is not dead.

In this historical piece, Holstein describes how death have transformed our society across time and context. Even though, Holstein doesn’t address directly the issue with physician- assisted suicide or its current legality, she offers great insight on what its dying, the problems with our current health care and what it means for a person to achieve a “death with dignity”. Finally, Holstein also touches in her piece the impact that current technology has had over a patient’s autonomy and the manner and way in which they died in our society. Hence, this paper is essential for my own research because it introduces the problem with our health care, the boundaries for maintaining control in a controlling society and the issue of dying with dignity with technologies or laws that seek to prolong our

The science which leads to the initialisation of the idea of creating organ donors which will contribute to the later life of those who stand higher in the society’s capitalistic structure can be said to have impacted the overall concept of a social order through the obstruction of proceeding in what is morally right as a result of deeming cloning perfectly acceptable. However, another way to interpret Ishiguro’s ideologies behind social order in Never Let Me Go can be through the lack of surprise at the ways in which Kathy’s society is run. The fact that science was powerful enough to normalise the concept of organ donation in a manner which is disadvantageous for the donors in regards to a chance at a normal life comes alongside the fact that there is very little desire to rebel on behalf of the donors. Through this, it can be deduced that science and its influence can completely overpower the idea of self righteousness and own will, enforcing conformity to the values put upon by a corrupt society, ultimately ensuing social

Khan’s purpose in writing this essay is to inform her audience about the process of an organ transplant. Even though she does not describe every action that the doctors are preforming, she is displaying the general process of it all. Rhetorical appeal is shown in vigorous amounts throughout this essay. In all of paragraph eight, ethos is being displayed such as, “To let and organ reach a state where the only solution is to cut it out is not progress; it’s a failure of medicine,” says pathologist Neil Theise of the NYU. Neil Theise of NYU is a credible source which attracts the

As complex an issue as physician assisted-death is, it is also one of great merit that offers an opportunity to explore a better understanding of the human experience. Physician assisted-death is often coupled with the term euthanasia and although it can be seen as a form of euthanasia, it differs in that the patient is in the control of the process through which they commit the act of suicide. In the consideration of the role of a human service professional during the procedure that is physician assisted-death (PAD), it is important to note the cultural and socioeconomic differences that affect both the understanding of PAD and a patient’s decision about the matter. A person’s ethno-cultural identity will give them a certain view on what

The need for organ donations creates another ethical dilemma for Emergency Room Physicians. “Obtaining organs from emergency room patients has long been considered off-limits in the United States because of ethical and logistical concerns” (Stein, 2010). The shortage of organs available for transplant has caused many patients die while waiting. A pilot project from the federal government “has begun promoting an alternative that involves surgeons taking organs, within minutes, from patients whose hearts have stopped beating but who have not been declared brain-dead” (Stein, 2010). “The Uniform Determination of Death Act

The thesis main point was about the sale of organs in an unethical manner, which the writer introduced in the forthcoming paragraphs. The writer introduced the nature of organ sales by comparing the U.S. and China, and how one service differs from the other in organ sales.

Hi, I am Linyue Zhang who want to renewing the i-20 status. I am writing this letter for my reinstatement. Therefore, I want to explain myself cordially.

D. Thesis - Organ donation and Transplants are the most remarkable success stories in the history of medicine. They give hope to

To sell or not to sell, that is the question. There was a story once told about a young man that died from a heart attack way too soon for most people to even consider death. His young nephew asked the adults when they explained that he had died why did they not get the man a new heart? It is not so simple, the adults attempted to explain or indeed it is simpler than one might at first believe? This work intends to conduct an examination of the issue of biomedical ethics as it relates to the cloning and sale of organs. Specifically in regards to the fairness of who will be in receipt of such organs in terms of socio-economic advantages of receiving or alternatively socio-economic disadvantages in terms of not receiving the organs.

This article holds that under certain circumstances, people should be allowed to donate their body parts to those who are in need. Three metaphors are presented to support the thesis. The gift metaphor holds that there is a general consensus that the body is a gift hence it is morally acceptable to donate them to people in need as a gift. The resource metaphor states that the state, authorities and the medical fraternity tend to perceive the body as a resource. The commodity metaphor holds that body organs are acutely scarce a situation that creates an extremely high demand from potential donors who are equally desperate to donate them to those in need. These metaphors suggest that donation of body parts to those in need is not only morally justifiable but also legally acceptable. It is very rational to donate a body part when the donor is well-informed that the transplant means giving life to another and that no suffering result from it. Organs are so valuable to be wasted because individuals neither think about the possibility of living after a transplant of after death.

Within the discipline of ethics, “Easy Rescues and Organ Transplantation”, “Governing the Postmortem Procurement of Human Body Material for Research”, and “Improving Organ Retrieval Rates” discuss the ethics needed from the audience to improve the amount of organs being donated for transplantation and research. Each article argues that donating organs after death is a moral thing to do as it is considered an “easy rescue” and would prevent the audience from participating in “free riding”, the idea of using a service without helping to improve or be a part of that