Physician Assisted Suicide Case Study

Physician-assisted suicide should be legal nationwide. As a former hospital employee, I know first-hand that some diseases can cause so much disability and pain that patients want to end their lives because they have had enough. Something dear to me is personal autonomy, a right of all people. If the patient is competent and wants to end their life, and a health care provider is willing to humanely help end that patient's life, then physician-assisted suicide should be legal and be performed, per the individual's wishes.

According to Paul J. van der Wal et al. in ¨Euthanasia, Physician-Assisted Suicide, and Other Medical Practices Involving the End of Life in the Netherlands, 1990–1995¨, he addresses that assisted suicide should be legal and regulated. The authors’ purpose of writing this journal article is to make reliable estimates of euthanasia; to describe patients and physicians, and to evaluate changes between 1990 and 1995. Even though assisted suicide is a growing taboo, it is being practiced more each and every day. Paul J. van der Wal et al. chose to conduct two studies to answer their hypotheses.

1. (problem – PAS): In today’s society, Physician Assisted Suicide is one of the most questionable and debatable issues. Many people feel that it is wrong for people to ask their doctor to help them end their life; while others feel it is their right to choose between the right to life and the right to death. “Suffering has always been a part of human existence.” (PAS) “Physicians have no similar duty to provide actions, such as assistance in suicide, simply because they have been requested by patients. In deciding how to respond to patients ' requests, physicians should use their judgment about the medical appropriateness of the request.” (Bernat, JL) Physician Assisted Suicide differs from withholding or discontinuing medical treatment, it consists of doctors providing a competent patient with a prescription for medication to aid in the use to end their life.

In the United States today, only several states legally recognize physician-assisted suicide as an option for families and terminally ill patients hoping to embrace a death with dignity. Although there is a growing movement to promote access to physician-assisted suicide, the topic is still widely regarded as taboo. As of 2016, the states of Washington, Oregon, Vermont, Colorado, New Jersey, and California are the only states to allow full and legal access to physician-assisted suicide. Alongside those states are Montana and New Mexico, which legally offer “aid in dying,” meaning the state allows for physicians to assist in alleviating the longevity of the dying process.

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.

First of all, terminally ill patients have the right to decide what happens with their life. Of recent suicide and attempted suicide have been their bodies are shutting down. Their organs stop working and they cant do everyday actitities without seviere pain. According to the federal constitution, every citizen is entitled to life liberty are the persuit of happieness. Due to court case Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health, the Supreme Court established that the due process clause protects a patient's liberty to refuse medical treatment. According to that statement, this means a patient can refuse medical attention and ultimately die (Is There a Constitutional..). Not alowing a patient this right would be unconstitutional. What

According to the CNN article physician assisted suicide is legal in 5 U.S. states with each state monitoring and establishing their guidelines to follow. The guidelines help to specify rules and regulations in order to protect all parties involved. If I was in a state that did not protect physician assisted suicide then I would look to change the law by creating a case law,in which allows someone that has a terminal illness,and is obviously in a state of suffering a long agonizing death to make their wishes known and allow them to choose when they can die and no longer be sick and suffer.

Living Proof, Miss Evers Boys, and You Don’t Know Jack are all movies based off of true events. These three movies all faced ethical and unethical events. Living Proof has to do with a compassionate research doctor that is trying to get a drug for breast cancer called Herceptin approved through the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This Film has some unethical and ethical events take place like favoritism, the funding, and of course the process to get FDA approval. Miss Evers Boys had several unethical events occur during the Tuskegee study. This study was to see if black men had the same symptoms to syphilis as the white men did. In this film the providers lied to their patients, broke confidentiality, and misrepresented theirself. You Don’t Know Jack is a film about physician assisted suicide. Is it ethical to be able to end your life at any given point and time that you want? Should be allowed to legalized physician assisted suicide Jack is the physician in this movie that believes very strong in people being able to have the assistants of a physician to end their own life.

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Imagine lying in a bed with the cold air hitting your fragile skin knowing you’re not able to take care of yourself. Your bones are aching and you feel your body slowly shutting down. That ulcer in your back is getting more painful and larger as you lay in bed in a vegetative state. You are terminally ill and have been giving a few more months to live as long as you continue taking 20 bottles worth of medications. Terminally ill patients should have the right to choose to opt for the assistance of medical professionals to end their lives with dignity if they chose to. Being in pain physically and/or emotionally yet coherent and sane, that option should be given. According to medinecine.net P.A.D is defined as “voluntary termination of one’s own life by administration of a lethal substance with the direct or indirect assistance

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The challenge to the healthcare provider is to distinguish normal sadness from pathological states and then to provide treatment. The role of the healthcare provider is to move beyond simple assessment of risk factors, toward clinical management of risk, and therapeutic treatment of underlying contributors to suicidality. If a person came to me with deteriorated mental health, with thoughts of attempting suicide, I would allow them to talk about these thoughts and feelings and their reasons for wanting to die and acknowledge these and allow them to express their feelings (e.g. allow them to cry, express anger or scream). I would ask open-ended questions (i.e. questions that cannot be simply answered with “yes” or “no”) to find out more about

a.Handling the suicide of a relative is commonly much harder than dealing with the loss of that relative through natural death.

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