Physician-assisted suicide

Type :

Presentation

Pages :

5 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

07/20/2008

Category :

Science & technology

Sub category :

Medical studies

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Summary :

Introduction.
Description of physician-assisted suicide.
Legislation relating to physician-assisted suicide.
Ethical Positions.
1. Pro.
2. Against.
3. My opinion.

Abstract

My cousin died after battling a brain tumor for six years. Before being diagnosed, she had moved to Dallas, got engaged and planned to be a teacher. At her time of death, she did not even look like the same person. One of my mother's closest friends, Joan, a registered nurse, died of cancer a few years ago. It had been in remission several times and came back aggressively. She was very tall (5' 11") and when she died, she weighed about 100 pounds. Almost a decade ago, my family traveled to Vermont to visit my step-grandfather in a skilled-nursing facility. He had been an articulate man who now could only yell indiscriminately and incomprehensibly (he died within months after our visit). My step-father said, "If I ever get like that, slip me a pill." I think he meant it too. My step-father, an Ivy-league graduate with a JD, is an intelligent man. He would not want to revert to being a child: helpless in his ability to express himself and in lack of function in caring for himself on a daily basis. This is about the choice of how one wants to live and how one wants to spend one's final days and how one wants to die. Would someone want to be on life support-a respirator-- or a feeding tube?