Should Terminally-Ill Patients Continue To Receive Available Medical Treatment

If there was absolutely no possibility of recovery, and the patient was suffering nearly everyday, the avenue of assisted suicide should be presented and given merit. With no possible way to avoid problems, issues arise for every possible situation, as assisted suicide is sometimes viewed as the easy way out. Large amounts of planning, assisted suicide by no means is easy though the drugs are roughly one hundred dollars (ProCon). The patient must come to terms with what will happen if they do not take this path, and also assess what will happen if they go this way. Pain and suffering could follow them around until they die or they could leave their family on a good note. Through assisted suicide, they could spend time with their family

B. It is important to take into consideration what the person desires. Although it may seem too extreme to end your life, we are not feeling what the ill person is feeling so we cannot judge their decisions.

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

In the article “ Omg I'm dying” author Wood Jabari Wood startes, A person who knows he has no hope of living are in tremendous amount of pain and stress and are most likely to fail in recovering and should let them die. The simple statement that a terminaly illed person should be let go is absurd. What this writer don’t understand is that people who are in pain wants a cure and it motivates themselves to keep pushing forward. A person can be in a massice amount of pain but that does not tell whether a person should give up or keep fighting. Although pain can affect peoples’ mind, it can also be

Quill, M.D., the methods of which physicians chose to help a patient die should be of last resort. I too believe that “excellent palliative care should be the standard of care for all dying patients, and no patient should be medically assisted with a hastened death because she is not receiving the standard of care” (Quill, 2012). “No one should choose to die from suffering that could have been relieved if clinicians had the will and expertise” (Quill, 2012) Palliative care is intended to identify most, but not all, causes of suffering at end of life (Quill, 2012). Physicians should have the proper training in providing pain and symptom management before being able to determine if a patient is ready to make the decision to

A patient choosing to terminate their treatment leads to letting life take its course and letting the terminal disease invade their body until they are no longer able to function and die naturally. Patients often choose to this option so that they are able to enjoy what portion of their life they have left through spending time with their family members and loved ones, traveling, or pursuing something they enjoy as opposed to spending their remaining days in a hospital receiving treatment when at that point it's often likely that they will pass away soon anyways.

Bellevue hospital in new york city has spoke out about this increasing problem. In charge of intensive care at Bellevue is Dr. Ken Berger. Currently he is treating a 72 year old patient who has problems such as Hepatic Failure, Renal Failure, Cardiac Failure, He has no blood pressure and he is septic. This patient of his has shown no indication of getting better and seems to be increasingly getting worse. This man being treated has no chance of survival. Berger's patient is suffering and cannot function normally. In 1990 the supreme court passed a law aimed at stopping prolonging life treatments. However New york lawmakers Have twisted the decision to make it actually more difficult to stop prolonging life treatments. This law requires consent

Should a person have the right to die when facing a terminal illness? Imagine that a loved one has just been diagnosed with a terminal illness. What is the first thing people think of? How much time do they have left and is there any way to extend that time? That is a normal reaction because we want as much time with our loved ones as possible. Now, put yourself in that same situation is that what you would want if it were you facing a terminal illness? A person should have the right to refuse treatment and or receive life ending chemical assistance when facing a terminal illness, because some terminal illness can greatly reduce quality of life, second a person has the right to choose their own health care and finally a person should have the right

Within time the terminal illness will weaken and slowly kill the patient and take their life no matter what, so instead of it being taken the patient should be able to make the decision for when

Critically ill patients should be allowed to end their life because they have freedom to choose how to end their life.

It isn’t right to keep a person, or more importantly a loved one alive, if they are suffering! So, you should really start to think about a better way for your family or the people of the world to be able to die if they have been told there is no longer any hope for them to get better. People who have terminal diseases like cancer, kidney disease, or other incurable sickness should have the right to die by euthanasia. Euthanasia is defined as the “right to die” by either a doctor or a lethal prescription. Some even call this an assisted suicide. The three arguments I have with this topic is: Keeping a person you love kept alive longer if they are suffering so badly is cruel. The next one is, keeping a person who has no hope

There are new treatments being tested, but all treatment is expensive, and a good attorney is likely necessary to secure the compensation to pay for these. Ultimately hospice care will be required and again compensation money should be kept back for this. Ultimately, in spite of all the treatment given, it is palliative care that will make the last days of the patient bearable, as will the help and support of the family, and this is what compensation can fund.

When a patient’s life seems to be nearing its end, it is generally felt that the morally best approach is to try a new intervention, continue all treatments, attempt an experimental course of action, in short, do something. (Welie, 2014). This is the time which healthcare professional need to do everything and use every technology they have to sustain patient’s life. Life sustaining treatment it has been proven to be one of the most difficult and common ethical dilemma is in most developed countries. American Medical Association define Life sustaining treatment as any treatment that serves to prolong life without reversing the underlying medical condition. Life sustaining treatment may include but not

When posed with this question, it would be difficult to answer without considering all possibilities. If my loved one could live with a quality life eventually or if treatment would prolong life until their “bucket list” might be completed, or if unresolved spiritual issues could be resolved, my decision would be to continue treatment! Having a goal of the treatment ahead certainly would be favorable for anyone facing a terminal illness. I can see how in some cases of cancer or other terminal diseases, a loved one may not want to have treatment due to the quality of life that

A quote I found by an anonymous person was “Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same”. I understand that their aren’t unlimited ventilators out there for everyone, so if a patient is terminal don't waste the resources that could be used for patients that has a chance to live but we need to at least give people a chance. It is a hard decision but providing free medical care for everyone is the right thing to do.