Euthanasia And Assisted Suicide Case Study

Euthanasia can be a life reliever to the patients in pain and suffering from an illness that is incurable, or can go completely against the morals and values of cultural groups. It is quite controversial, and is debated among society whether it is right to take the life of a patient who requests it or not. The facts must be considered about this issue before any laws and/or guidelines are set into place.

As consultants we all have the responsibility to treat every client with the respect, compassion, and nonjudgmental to be able to provide good sessions that will benefits the clients’ positive outcomes. When a client’s come to an office seeking for help, the counselors needs to remember and be able to put in practice the suicide assessments and created interventions plans according to the steps of “SCATT” which stands for “Stay, Consult, Apprise, Terminate, Truncate and Transport”. According to Gerald A. Juhnke, Gerald B. Juhnke, and Pei-Hsuan Hsieh (2012) states that by 2009 the National Center for Health Statistics found that more than 36,000 of American population committed suicide.

The controversy of euthanasia is nothing new. Euthanasia can be voluntary, active, passive or involuntary; along with a combination of factors. Supporters of active euthanasia or when a person requests to end their life as a result of a terminal illness that is causing a terrible amount of pain advocate that those patients should have the right to choose their time of death. The opposers of active euthanasia argue that it is murder to remove life saving devices and one should

United Stated has always had a great debate over the topic of assisted suicide and euthanasia and whether or not it should be legalized. In 1997, President Clinton signed the Assisted Suicide Funding Restriction Act of 1997 which clearly stated that using Medicaid, Medicare, military and federal employee health plans, veterans’ health care system and other federally funded programs to commit assisted suicide was restricted and taxpayer money also could not be used in support for legal assistance on the issue of assisted suicide.

In a sense, euthanasia has been one of the most controversial and debated topics to ever arise in medicine. Euthanasia is defined as the intentional, painless killing by act or omission of a dependent human being suffering from an incurable disease or irreversible coma (King, 2016). Although the practice is still illegal in many areas, it is becoming more accepted, legal, and decriminalized in many parts of the United States. In majority of cases, the termination is carried out at the person's request, but there are times when they may be too ill or not in their right mind, and it is left to close relatives to make the decision. Euthanasia directly affects autonomy, which is a patient's right to make his own decision regarding his own life (Lachman, 2010). It is also important to be able to identify the different types of euthanasia, because it is not as simple as just "terminating a life." It is much more difficult that the previous definitions leads on. It can be done in several different ways, each with their own defining characteristics, and issues can arise from every one of them. Euthanasia, also known as patient assisted suicide or "mercy killing" has many pros, cons, morality concerns, and legal issues that directly impact the future of the practice.

Euthanasia is assisted suicide, helping someone to end their own life when they are suffering from a terminal or debilitating illness. When thinking about euthanasia the popular physician Dr. Jack Kevorkian comes to mind, this doctor was jailed for helping one hundred and thirty patients to end their lives by administering a concoction of powerful medications S. Tanenbaum (2015). This case had sparked widespread controversy and debate about ethical and legal ramifications of helping patients to end their life. Ultimately Dr. Jack Kevorkian was convicted of murdering one patient and was sentenced to eight years in prison for his crime S. Tanenbaum (2015). I think if someone is facing a painful and dramatically life altering illness that will

The debate on the morality and ethics of voluntary or assisted suicide versus passive euthanasia present an intriguing aspect in the nursing field. While there are distinct parallels between voluntary and assisted euthanasia, there exists a similarity that the death is explicitly at the request of the patient, and the doctor acts in a manner that brings about the death of the patient (Beauchamp et al. 2014, p. 82). In contrast, passive euthanasia does not directly involve the doctor and, as such, the patient dies of the medical condition that already afflicts them. However, despite these differences, the question of the ethical justifications of each of these actions remains largely debatable.

Ethics has been a topic of much debate recently. Unlike laws, ethics is based on personal opinion and what a person has been taught. As we have seen in the news lately, ethical issues are never black and white, ethics is more of a fine line: a grey area where no politician likes to speak. This is not confined to any country, issues like abortion or euthanization are causing disputes that are not easily resolved.

Having an elderly family member fall ill to a critical illness can be devastating for the family and friends of that person. Although it is ultimately up to the patient - if they are mentally capable - to decide to have an assisted suicide death, which could cause several issue with the family members. Or if the child of the ill or elderly parent has to decide whether their mom or dad should go forward with active euthanasia, could also cause some issues amongst the family. Euthanasia and assisted suicide is a way for family members and friends to be able to say their goodbyes to their loved one and know that they won’t be suffering for much longer. First, this essay is going to explore what euthanasia and assisted suicide is, and what the

     The most compelling aspect to euthanasia is the fact that it relieves the pain and suffering of a person with a terminal disease. When a patient knows and accepts that he/she is going to die death seems a better way out, rather than years of suffering. Not allowing Euthanasia is causing un-needed pain and suffering to patients whose only wish is that they could just pass away so the agonizing pain would go away. Whether the terminal disease is a type of cancer, tumor, or AIDS death is inevitable and the journey

Medical ethics have played a significant role in shaping societies’ response to suffering, healing and the choice for life or death. In particular, one of the earliest attempts to construct an ethical code, the Hippocratic Oath, continues to be used as one of the main reasons given as to why doctors should not assist a patient to die. Opponents of euthanasia and assisted suicide include United State’s large nonreligious organizations such as the American Medical Association, the American Hospital Association, and the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (Foley 3). One of the reasons to oppose is that euthanasia and assisted suicide violates the Hippocratic Oath; the Oath does not say that physicians must continue to treat patients

The ethical issue is Euthanasia, there are many groups that support or oppose this issue. Euthanasia is the painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease or in an irreversible coma. The different viewpoints are based around whether it is humane to assist someone in dying and whether it should be illegal for someone to assist the death of someone who has a terminal illness and are suffering incurable pain. Groups that oppose the issue generally believe that it is inhumane to end someone 's life early, these groups generally believe these people should be given care and as much comfort as possible until their last days. Groups that support the issue generally believe that if someone has lost their mental state or are suffering unbearable pain that cannot be cured, that they should be allowed the option of euthanasia because it is inhumane to make someone suffer unbearable pain if they do not need to. An ethical issue brings systems of morality and principles into conflict, ethical issues are more subjective and opinionated and generally cannot be solved with facts, laws and truth. Euthanasia is an ethical issue because there are two equally unacceptable options. It is considered wrong

This is why Euthanasia is important and summarizing the research that I found on Euthanasia. Euthanasia is important because there is a lot of arguments about Euthanasia. Some people support it and some people do not support Euthanasia (Euthanasia and assisted suicide- Arguments). Euthanasia allows people to be free from physical pain. It is the hastening of death of a patient to prevent further sufferings (Euthanasia Revisited). The religious argument states God chooses when human life ends. Euthanasia also causes mental suffering because they are in physical pain or they are experiencing with terminal illness. It is a debatable issue. There are many different opinions on Euthanasia.

How will a course of treatment affect the quality of happiness or misery in each person’s life? Traditional utilitarian justifications against killing do not seem to apply to voluntary euthanasia. Peter Singer stated that

Euthanasia is a major ethical topic all around the world. Euthanasia is the deliberate killing of a person for the benefit of that person. In most cases euthanasia is carried out because the person who dies asks for it, but there are cases in euthanasia where people are unconscious, in a coma or unstable and can’t make that decision. Some people focus on how people should die without pain and if someone wants to be injected they should be allowed. Other people believe that it is against the law and religiously wrong so you shouldn’t do it.