QUESTION 1
1. An elderly relative has a terminal illness and asks you to help them end their life. Helping them commit suicide is against the law but your relative begs you. Would you assist with their suicide?
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I would not be able to do that. I would spend as much time as I can to research new ways to alleviate their pain. In my personal view, finding out the better solution to live the life is the best way to solve the problem rather than helping them commit suicide. QUESTION 2
You are friends with a married couple and one of them confides in you that they are having an affair. Would you feel obliged to tell their partner or would you keep quiet?
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According to my ethics, we have to do good to everyone no matter what. So in this
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You discover their partner has been having an affair and have concrete evidence to prove their guilt. Do you tell your friend and ruin their big day?
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It is my responsibility to tell the truth to my best friend as she is going to start a new life and she does not know her partner is cheating on her. It is her big day and I want to see her happy the whole life but she does not know what is going to happen in the upcoming days. This is my personal view that I should make them tell the truth before they get marriage and not to hide anything from each other about their life as they are going to spend their whole life together.
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QUESTION 9
You enter a quiz and the winning team will be awarded $10,000 for the charity of their choice. You find a copy of the questions before the quiz. Is it okay to cheat for the benefit of a charity?
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People should be happy with either winning or loosing. In my view, if I get a copy of questions before the quiz, I will definitely use that to win as the awarded money is going for charity. According to ethics, people should do things that will make them happy. So I will be very happy to give the money to the charity people with my
When presented with a situation that is against my ethical principles, I would analyze the situation and I would encourage an ethical solution. The commitments that serve as a foundation for influencing my relationships are to be honorable, consistent, and loyal. Responsibility, fairness, and self-knowledge are the personal approach I would take to deal with ethical questions. In the situation of a friend behaving unethically, I would encourage them to realign their actions with ethical standards, or distance myself from them if they continue to act
Before sharing the information check why the other person wants the information, what is the result they are trying to achieve and could the aims be achieved without sharing the information.
you must do your upmost best to reassure the individual as well as you can, and tell them that you have to pass the delicate information on
Two main points of controversy about this are religious beliefs and medical ethics. Many people feel when the law allows someone who is competent and terminally ill the choice of assisted suicide, they are setting up the choice for people who are not competent to just assume they want to die. For example, a 24-year-old woman in Belgium was experiencing depression and was granted the right to die when experiencing no life-threatening illness. The doctor in this example sates, “she has been a patient of psychiatric institution since the age of 21 and says she previously tried to kill herself on several occasions. The health professionals in Belgium will give her a lethal injection due to her experiencing suicidal thoughts her whole life” (MSN News). In this case as the professional doctor, you could be unsure what to do. Clearly the 24-year-old woman is facing pain through the depression. If the medical personal does not do what she wishes by forcing the lethal injection then I am sure she will just kill herself. “Belgium passed a law to legalize euthanasia in 2002, the law states that Belgian doctors can help patients to end their lives if they freely express a wish to die because they are suffering from intractable and unbearable pain” (MSN News). The Medical ethics on Assisted Suicide could be viewed as the doctor helping their patient by avoiding all the pain and suffering vs. trying to make a
5. Sally found out through a friend that her current boyfriend has been cheating on her with another woman. She is very distraught and is not sure what to do about the situation. :I would talk to him and if he lied I would of break-up and move on with my life, but also I would need to have proof if he was cheating or hire a detective to follow him to all the places he went to. Because sometimes friends lie to see you down, and sad and maybe their the other woman that your boyfriend is seeing.
follow the guidelines for self disclosure. Ones that they did not follow are the moral obligation to disclose, the amount and type of disclosure, the risk of disclosing reasonable, effect be constructive, and self disclosure reciprocated. Ones they did were the importance of the other person, relevant on hand, and clear and understandable
• Reassure the individual and tell them that you have to pass this information on.
Suicide is wrong, morally and ethically. Life is precious and should be treated as such, and it is always terrible when someone in perfect health takes their own life. However, if someone`s quality of life is low, is living in unbearable pain, and doesn't think life is worth living, then giving them the option to choose seems less wrong.Wasting away, sedated and stuck in a bed, is a sad existence that many do not desire to have. Many patients would much rather die peacefully in their own bed surrounded by their family and friends.
To disclose or not to disclose?, That question usually comes when you start a new relationship with a friend, a boy friend, a new job or any new relationship, but disclosing can also happen with people we have known for a long time or not. Scholars define self-disclosure as sharing information with others that they would not normally know or discover, but I feel like each person has his or her own way of defining what self closure is. To me, self disclosure is letting myself go and trusting the person I am disclosing to, it involves risk and vulnerability on my part sharing important information to someone. Therefore I go back to the question I posed before, do I trust this person or not, do I love this person to feel my vulnerability, do
Assisted suicide, whose life is it? In reality it is the person’s life, and if they are suffering from a terminal illness they should get to choose whether or not they want to suffer. One very aggressive form of a terminal illness is the Glioblastoma Multiforme. This type of brain tumor is more common than a person may think it is also very deadly (Markert). Who is to say a person can’t end their terminal illness, pain, and suffering? They are just like every other human being who wants to die with dignity.
You and your friend go out to dinner one night, when she confides in you that she has been cheating on her husband,
So do I feel guilty when I tell an overweight friend that those jeans look fine on her when they in fact don’t? Yes, I feel a little guilty. But I know deep down that in that moment the truth would hurt her and a discussion about her weight would be better suited at home over coffee rather than in the public dressing room of a retail store.
How to deal with this disclosure depends on her own state of mind and her family situation.
For some teens, striving for perfection has led to harming their own health and wellbeing such as living with depression and suicide. Teenagers today are relying on what they see in ads, T.V., magazines and on the internet for their input on appearances, the way they think not only comes from media sources, but from family and friends.
As I said before, I wouldn’t want to be alone, so I would probably call a bunch of my friends over to my house, or I would go talk to that one friend that I trust with all my heart, and tell her how I feel, and explain how much it hurts.