When Living Is A Fate Worse Than Death Summary

“They pulled off her clothes and pumped her chest, put a tube in her airway and forced oxygen into her lungs, and tried to see if they could shock her heart back” (Gawande 133). Such contrast comparison and strong words that would impact the readers’ thoughts on how the process of death can vary through different circumstances. After that, he again embraces the benefits of choosing hospice care rather than going to hospital for intensive medical treatments.

Thesis: All terminally ill patients or individuals in chronic severe pain should have the option of a peaceful and quick death to minimize suffering.

Patients suffering from terminal illnesses, battle feeling worthless and hopeless on a daily basis. This is due to our jurisdiction forcing them to live. The number of people suffering continues to increase. Although a doctor’s position is to prolong life, euthanasia should be considered in certain cases. Because of the advances in technology euthanasia and physician assisted suicide are now an option for terminally ill patients who are going to suffer from an incurable and painful disease or are in an irreversible coma. Euthanasia and physician assisted suicide should be legalized because the public supports it, it would only be used for patients who are terminally ill, and it alleviates unnecessary suffering. The word euthanasia originates

The “Right to Die” (Euthanasia) should be further looked into as an option for terminally ill patients and not considered unethical. There has been an issue concerning the topic of “Human Euthanasia” as an acceptable action in society. The research compiled in conjunction with an educated opinion will be the basis for the argument for voluntary Euthanasia in this paper. Patients suffering from an incurable illness, exhausting all medical treatments, should be given the freedom of choice to continue their path of suffering or end it at their own will. “The Right to die” is not suicide, as you are fully aware that death will be certain, as Euthanasia spares the individual of additional pain.

Should medicine intervene in the delay of a person dying when they have a terminal disease, or have experience major traumatic injury to their body? How physicians participate at times in prolonging the natural course of dying while trying to fix what cannot be fixed. “The simple view is that medicine exists to fight death and disease, and that is, of course, its most basic task. Death is the enemy.”(Gawande, 2014) The truth is death is not the enemy, it is the fear of death that perpetuates the many of the treatments that done. The author did not ignore the fact that some physicians do not really engage with their patients. If a physician truly engaged with the patient, as Dr. Benzel did with the author’s father, they would recognize fear, in the patient and it may avert some treatments; and provide palliative care instead.

Nobody can escape death. It is inevitable. It can arrive when one is old and fragile, content with the life they have lived, or it can jump out from around a corner when one is on their way home from celebrating their twenty-first birthday. It has no set schedule or due date for those to plan around. Years ago, when medical interventions where still fictional, death carried out its own course of action however it desired. As medicine has progressed, many life-saving treatments have been developed as well as life-ending interventions. End-of-life decisions generate many ethical issues that policymakers, medical professionals, and patients and family members have never encountered before. One such question is whether “palliative sedation” is

[End-of-Life care is a term used in the medical field to describe treatment given to a patient around the time of death. With the advance of modern medicine, there is an expectation on the part of the patient and the physician that the patient would then live longer, but death is not curable, and the end will inevitably come. In these cases, the patient may not be able to be cured of their disease, but medical support and surgery may extend their time to live for a while. A moral dilemma raises then when the decision between prolonging life and making it meaningful has to be made by the patient ]

Since the advancement of technology and capability of medicine, the debate has risen to a level of which it can’t be ignored. The fact of prolonging someone’s life has to be a factor since it is a possibility of prolonging it comfortably. Before there were advancement of technology and capability of medicine most American died at home, with their love ones around and family doctors which would provide comfort and solace, also in some occasion the doctor would give an extra dose of morphine for the pain or to help asses in death.

Contrary to the wish of the patients who suffer and wish to be helped in dying, some of the practitioners and state laws do not permit the exercise to be conducted. Patients are to help patients to recover from the diseases they suffer from rather than helping to cut their lives. The guidelines indicate that doctors are to help patients recover from illness. The need of patients is to be treated and give hope that the suffering will end after the prescribed dose is over. The significance of euthanasia has not been clearly defined. The major reason of patients seeking the help of physicians is not that the patients have no hope of getting cured, but to remove the pain of thinking about the physical pain. "To achieve that end, with dignity and without pain, doctors should be allowed to aid terminal patients by providing necessary doses of drugs." Despite doctors and physicians helping patients to die, the sole decision lies with the patients as they have control over their lives. The counter argument to those against physician-assisted suicide will agree that patients with extreme pain have no ability to contribute to the economy, as they cannot work. Hence, the solution to such unproductive patients is to eliminate them from the society and allow the energetic people to run the economy.

Some may argue that the idea of assisting a terminally ill patient who wants to end his or her own life is morally and ethically correct. After deliberating on this important topic, we all have chosen why we are either against or for this proposition. Before we begin discussing this topic, we must first define the name and the aspects related to this topic. The medical term is known as euthanasia. Euthanasia comes from the Greek work Eu meaning “good” and thanatos meaning “death” (a good death). Good death, in this case, refers to a painless death. All painless deaths aren’t necessarily euthanasia. It only occurs when another individual directly causes the death another person. In other words, euthanasia can be defined as the intention of

It is a fact of life that we will all die someday. However, with advanced technology in medicine, more choices and decisions for dying patients have been created. Dying patients are now able to choose when and how they want to die other than just letting nature take its course. Whether one chooses to die with a Physician’s assistance, focus on comfort and recognizing preferences and reaffirming the commitment to preserve life, is all up to an individual or families and subject for discussion.

Millions of people die each year from terminal illnesses such as heart disease, respiratory infections, and several types of cancers. Doctors find it necessary to force patients to stay alive regardless of their wishes. Some patients would like to die with dignity and on their own terms. Hospitalized patients whose life will end soon, due to a terminal disease, should be able to proceed to end it if they desire. If the states would allow them the right to die, “many patients with diminishing health would be relieved of their pain and hurt” (The Benefits). No one wants to suffer or to see his loved ones suffer. The pain and suffering is unnecessary and causes a lot of stress on the doctors, patients, and the patients’ families. Terminally ill

Medical advances have increased the length of the average life innumerably, by prolonging death, but this involves challenging medical ethics. Keeping a large number of very ill people alive with these medical technologies, there is also a possibility of suffering; discomfort and diminished quality of life.

The field of medicine is continuously growing each and everyday. However, there are many terminal illnesses even the experts cannot cure yet. There are options for those living under these deadly conditions, including lifetime medications, palliative care and for those near the end of life, hospice. Among those forms of treatment, there is an alternative to relieve suffrage that some would much more prefer. This is the idea of physician-assisted suicide, which can also be referred to as active euthanasia or mercy killing. According to author of “Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide” and part owner of Medical News Today and Market Business News, Christian Nordqvist, physician-assisted suicide refers to the intentional hastening of death by a terminally ill patient with assistance from a

Though parents have the right and the responsibility to make choices for their child, Charlie’s parents were not in a rational state of mind when making the decision to keep him on life support and attempt the experimental treatment. In this type of situation, most parents would do anything to keep their child alive, but they may actually be causing more harm to their child than good. Parents are typically unable to see the reality of the situation when there is nothing left to do and disregard the idea that the doctor has their patient’s best interests in mind. Because the patient or parents are unable to think rationally about the situation, it is the doctor’s responsibility to do what is best for the patient. An example of this can be seen in the case of Mr. Howe, a man in his late thirties suffering from complications of gallbladder surgery. Mr. Howe was fighting sepsis, but since it was caught in the early stages, treatment was simple. His doctors needed to put him on a ventilator for a few days to allow the antibiotics time to fight the infection. Mr. Howe refused a ventilator, but when he became unconscious the