Wrongful Death Elements

2. According to the opinion, Mrs. Stowers was committed on the strength of the statement of two physicians that she was "mentally ill." Would that evidence be sufficient today to have someone committed involuntarily? If not, what would the evidence have to prove? Why?

Death is an elementary word harboring many meanings. It is the feeling of being caught in the grip of inevitably. It is a personal realization that you too are mortal. It is the recognition that one's life is changed forever. The shiny image of a once bright world full of promise dulls. Unfortunately, every individual will experience the death of a loved one at least once in their life. No words can soothe the agony of losing a loved one. State legislatures are familiar with this grief and have created either a coroner system or a medical examiner system. A coroner system consists of a coroner whose responsible for identifying the decreased body, alerting the family members or anyone of close relation, signing the death certificate and

wrongful-death suit swiftly discovered that they were on hand to bear witness to something else” (Golab,

Alice Paul is known as a leader of the woman suffrage movement in the early twentieth century. Along with Lucy Burns, she attempted to obtain equal rights for women by attempting to create change on a federal level. Paul is known for her tactics that included picketing the White House and conducting hunger strikes after being arrested. Her efforts along with others led to women getting closer to gaining equality.

They must both recommend that the patient notifies their family members and have a living will in place.

Yes. While an individual being prosecuted for the death of a Plaintiff’s loved one is helpful in a wrongful death and/or survival case, it is not a requirement.

Nothing can prepare a family for an unexpected death. The toll it takes has devastating emotional consequences. To make matters worse, there are practical problems that often arise. The deceased may have incurred large medical bills before they died. The death requires a burial which can cost the surviving family members more than expected. Also, if the deceased provided income for the family, the struggle to keep their lives going can be almost impossible. When the death was caused by an act of negligence, there are terms for the surviving family members to bring forward a wrongful death claim.

The media plays a huge role in forming people's perceptions of crime. Without the media we would remain ignorant to occurrences outside our direct social groups. The media and especially news coverage therefore provides us with an important point of contact with the rest of society. In evaluating its effect on popular perceptions of crime it becomes important to consider where most of the information comes from and how representative it is on actual criminality. If it takes "facts" (the truth, the actual event, a real thing) or if it is heightened to a crime myth. With a myth being based upon "exaggeration" or heightening of "ordinary" events in life. Crime myths become a convenient

That other factor is removing one from life support. This issue is brought up in both the case of Karen Ann Quinlan and in the case of Cruzan v. Missouri. It is illegal to remove a patient from life support without

The problem of interest that I chose to discuss is lateral violence (LV) in nursing. LV is a deliberate and harmful behavior demonstrated in the workplace by one employee to another, it is a significant problem in the nursing profession (Christie, 2014). LV is the same thing as bullying someone. Studies estimate that 44% to 85% of nurses are victims of LV; up to 93% of nurses report witnessing LV in the workplace (Christie, 2014). LV can affect the victim’s physical and mental health, it can affect patient care and safety, and can be detrimental to the work environment. LV is often perpetrated by nurse managers and some nurses are afraid to report the LV for fear of retaliation or losing their jobs (Christie, 2014).

There are agreed ways of working and legal requirements in place that are designed to protect the rights of an individual during end of life care, these are as follows:

Manners of death are the ways of an individual, or a group of people died at a certain location in which law enforcement have to categorize the individual’s or a group’s death. The certain locations can assist law enforcement to determine and eliminate the possibilities of how a person died. There are four manners of death that each have their own category: natural, accident, suicide, and homicide. Each manner illustrates how a person or a group were killed; for example, drug overdose, car incident, building on fire, etc. Sometimes it’s difficult to determine the manner of death of the deceased due to certain factors; if law enforcement confirmed that the person died of a drug overdose, then the next step is if it was an accident, suicide,

Sarah and Bill Walmsley, a married couple, were both killed in a vehicle accident in North Montana. The Walmsleys were lifelong residents of South Montana. The beneficiaries of the Walmsleys’ estate were their two minor children, who moved to North Montana after the accident. After the accident, the Walmsleys’ estate sued the Lester Stanton, the car driver that caused the wreck that killed the Walmsleys. The estate received a judgment in the amount of $2,000,000 from Stanton for negligence. But the estate only was able to recover $50,000 from Stanton because of the limit on his insurance policy.

Presented are four separate cases that have been argued and settled in a court of law. Each of these cases represent a different kind of tort, a tort is a civil wrong or wrongful act, which can be either intentional or accidental, from which injury occurs to another (Hill & Hill n.d.). The torts are as listed, intentional, criminal, negligence, and liability as presented in the four researched cases.

There is a greater risk from the physicians diagnosing death over the objections of the family and the attending physician than not diagnosing death without having the medical staff agree.