Loan Assisted Suicide Case Study

The readers first encounter with this unity is through the relationship between the Joad and the Wilson family. On their separate journies to California, the Joad and the Wilson family cross paths. The two families merge together sharing hardships and helping each other out. Ma realizes that “Each'll help each, an' we'll all git to California.” The two families share the same mindset where they are able to care and concern for each other despite their individual conflicts. They learn that together they can create a sense of community which provides safety, strength, and support that will ultimately help them survive.

The patient is a 10 year old male who presented to the ED with multiple lacerations on his left hand. The patient denies suicidal ideations, homicidal ideations, and symptoms of psychosis. The patient states, " I don't know why I cut myself." Later on, the patient denies threats towards other students and admits he cut himself because it felt good.

Advances in medical treatments have raised the average life expectancy of people in Canada. However, it fails to guarantee a perfectly healthy life for people who experience incurable diseases. The rising interest in Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in Canada, is an outcome of the desire of people to have a greater control over their lives in terms of their capacity to determine death when the patients are terminally ill.

Pt is a 12 y/o African American female presented at NNBHC with dx of ADHD combine type, ODD, Disruptive Mood Dysregulation D/O, Mood D/O, PTSD and Sexual Abuse (victim/ perpetrator), who have been feeling severely depressed and SI. Pt states that she has had SI with a plan to overdose or cut her wrist. Pt is considered high risk due her unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide on 7/5/2015 by taking a handful (unknown quantity) of Clonidine. She was hospitalized at CHKD until she was medially stable, than transferred to Maryview for mental stabilization. Pt states that she is unable to contract for safety at this time, and unsure of what she may do due to her impulsivity. Pt has also have been currently distributing nude pictures to adult males via cell phone. Virginia Beach Police Department is involved with the solicition of child pornography per report from pt mother. Pt have been using explicit communication of sexual acts via text message with males and females. Since 7/5/15 there have been a change in medication Vyvanse 70mg to 30mg. Pt have a hx of becoming verbally aggressive towards hospital staff when medications change. Pt denies any psychosis or paranoid thinking.

Thirty-six year old James Foster accompanied by his wife Megan signs his do-not-resuscitate order (DNR). Both Mr. Foster and his wife are understanding of what a do-not-resuscitate order is and are in agreeance. James has stage IV prostate cancer, but he is young and his wife believes he will pull through. A month passes, and early one morning James stops breathing, the patient is coding. Nurse Compton rushes in along with other medical professionals. Mrs. Foster is screaming, “Save him. Save him. Do whatever it takes to save him. Do not let him die.” Nurse Compton knows that Mr. Foster has a do-not-resuscitate order on file and feels not only sad in regards to the situational pain that Mrs. Foster is exhibiting, but morally conflicted with

On 11/19/16 at 1156 hrs, I was dispatched to Carrollwood 4068 78th Ave Apt 5, Pinellas Park 33781. Reference the complainant’s daughter receiving text messages from her daughter’s boyfriend stating they were going to committed suicide.

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Two days after his return from his gulf coast adventure he was admitted to the hospital.

“Someone call 911”, I said, when I saw a girl fall down the stairs lying unconscious. The nurse at Rockdale County High School assisted with the situation. My friend Fred and I held her so she wouldn’t hurt herself any more than had already been done. The nurse notified us that this girl has epilepsy (meaning that a person has had two or more seizures, but it’s not contagious & is not caused by mental illness or mental retardation). I didn’t pay too much attention to what the nurse was saying because I was focused on the girl's breathing and her ability regain consciousness. The nurse insisted on calling her sister to be there for her when she wakes up. The nurse knew that when she would wake up, she would want to hug one of us or her sister because all she remembers is blacking out during the time it took place.

This case study discusses the moral problems associated with physician-assisted suicide. The Catholic Church is apposed to such euthanasia because it transgresses God's commandment not to kill innocent life, it usurps God's sovereignty over human lives, and it violates obligations to serve others and the common good (Pg. 318). I can understand why the Catholic Church would be apposed to physician-assissted suicide, however I do not take this position. I support Oregon's Death with Dignity Act. Statistics show only a very small percent of patients, 0.132 percent, chose to end their life with euthanasia under this law between 1998 and 2010. Although Christians view such a suicide equally as wrong as murder, these beliefs are not shared by all

People who reach the requirements of the death with dignity laws, should have the right to end their own life quickly. Right now, only six states have legalized PAS (Physician-Assisted Suicide). The other 44 states are holding back the right for people with terminal illness, or people suffering from pain to die peacefully. Not giving a legal pathway for people to die, can lead to patients into committing suicide which is a more stressful way for their family. People should have the right to end their lives if they are in pain.

An elderly Toronto man, of the age of 81, has died just 24 hours after a court affirmed his appeal to doctor assisted suicide. A.B. was a husband and grandfather who had been suffering from the advanced propelling stages of terminal lymphoma and was diagnosed in 2012. A.B. was bed-ridden and intolerable pain, despite being prescribed pain killers and other narcotics. A.B. appealed to the Supreme Court three months prior to his death, to fight for what he deemed to be right so fundamentally. To have the right to decide when one can no longer preserve through the torment of a disease and to be helped to death by a doctor, keeping in mind the end goal to go with tranquility and dignity. He was granted permission on Thursday, March 17,2016 from

Physician-Assisted Suicide is legalized in the following states: Oregon,California, Montana, Washington, Colorado, and Washington D.C. Oregon was the first state who legalized Physician-Assisted Suicide. “The very first annual report on the usage of the new Oregon Death with Dignity Act showed that 14 physicians prescribed medications under the law to 24 patients received prescriptions under the new law, of which 16 chose to take the medications. The patients’ median age of the patients was 69.”, (“MenuSite Navigation  Death with Dignity Act Annual Reports.” Oregon Health Authority : Death with Dignity Act Annual Reports : Death with Dignity Act : State of Oregon, www.oregon.gov/oha/PH/ProviderPartnerResources/EvaluationResearch/DeathwithDignityAct/Pages/ar-index.aspx.).

The intuitive account of the moral significance of choice is what Scanlon calls the Forfeiture View, which he then sets against the Value of Choice view. The Forfeiture View places moral weight on the deliberateness and voluntariness of a person’s decision. This view asserts that one has no right to complain about a given health outcome if he consciously and intentionally chose the harmful option while he could have reasonably avoided it as she was well-informed and has access to alternative options through which she would have avoided being exposed to harm. (Scanlon, 1998, 258-9) In other words, what matters is whether one has chosen the risk “with full awareness of the considerations”, in other words, with full awareness of the probability

Is the role of a medical professional to ensure the health and comfort of their patients, or to help them end their lives? Since Dr. Kevorkian assisted in the suicide of Janet Adkins in 1990, physician-assisted suicide (PAS) has been one of the most controversial issues in the medical field today. While some view it as an individual right, others view it as an unethical issue that goes against medical ethics and religious values. Mr. H. M. is an elderly man who is diagnosed with terminal lung cancer and no chance of improvement. After excruciating pain and suffering, he has decided to request physician-assisted death in his home state of Oregon. Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act (DDA) states that terminally ill patients are allowed to use