Erin Silinsky
Prof. Prill. Boyle
English 101
08 march 2017 How would you feel if you had to watch a loved one with a horrible terminal illness live in complete agony for the rest of their life? You would just want to do everything you could do to try and help them. Sometimes you have to think, if this were me would I want this done? It’s hard to watch a family member suffer and there isn't really much you can do to fix it. It’s would also be hard if the sick person lived alone with no family. Sometimes the
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For most, having a terminal illness could be depressing. Sometimes it hurts too much for them and they can’t do normal activities. For example, how would you feel if all of a sudden at the age of twenty five you come down with some terminal illnesses like Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis? Where your body is slowly shutting down and you can’t perform normal activities like you would on your own. You now need permanent help to do everything from going to the bathroom to talking. No one should have to live their lives this way. Some are even in excruciating pain hoping to die at any moment so they pain would just go away. This is why doctor assisted suicides would help them. It would end their pain and suffering so they can finally be …show more content…
With having to plan all the doctor appointment and having to work around their loved ones schedule. This could be extremely hard for families that have small children, because now they are trying to work around three different schedules. With the doctor assisted suicide it could the families understand that they aren't living in the agonizing pain anymore. They also won't have to deal with the pain of watching their loved one suffering anymore. It would also help put the families minds at rest knowing they made the right choice to end their loved ones
The patients will have the understanding that if they cannot keep fighting the option is available. ¨ There is not more profoundly personal decision, nor one which is closer to the heart of personal liberty, than the choice which a terminally ill person makes to end his or her suffering and hasten an inevitable death¨ ( Sarah Henry, 1996, p. 10). If they are ready to end it, the option is available. They know the choice they make will affect them, but it also helps to know if they cannot go on they can tell the doctor and they will end it. ¨ Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations is the first religious group to pass in favor of Euthanasia for the terminally ill¨ ( Leading Issue Timelines, 2017, p. 8¨. The terminally ill should have the right to know if they are going to be allowed to end their lives if the fighting gets hard and to unbearable. They do not want to give up just to be on the road of a slow and possibly painful death. ¨ Between physician and patient concerning a request for assisted suicide be witnessed by two adults¨ ( Yale Kamisar, 1998, p. 6). The doctor´s are not going to just inject the patient with the killing drug. The patient has to be able to say for themselves and someone else has to be present when said, when gone over and when they are injected. The family can know their family member really wants to follow through with it and they have
It’s hard for a family to go through this and the terminally ill want to save their families from as much heart break as they can.
Anyone can be diagnosed with a terminal illness. It doesn’t matter how healthy you are, who you are, or what you do. Some terminal illnesses you can prevent by avoiding unhealthy habits, eating healthily, exercising regularly and keeping up with vaccinations. However some terminally ill people cannot be helped, their diseases cannot be cured and the only thing possible to help them, besides providing pain relieving medication, is to make them as comfortable as possible while enduring their condition. Many times the pharmaceuticals do not provide the desired pain escape, and cause patients to seek immediate relief in methods such as euthanasia. Euthanasia is the practice of deliberately ending a life in order to alleviate pain and suffering, but is deemed controversial because many various religions believe that their creators are the only ones that should decide when their life’s journey should reach its end. Euthanasia is performed by medical doctors or physicians and is the administration of a fatal dose of a suitable drug to the patient on his or her express request. Although the majority of American states oppose euthanasia, the practice would result in more good as opposed to harm. The patient who is receiving the euthanizing medication would be able to proactively choose their pursuit of happiness, alleviate themselves from all of the built up pain and suffering, relieve the burden they may feel they are upon their family, and die with dignity, which is the most ethical option for vegetative state and terminally ill patients. Euthanasia should remain an alternative to living a slow and painful life for those who are terminally ill, in a vegetative state or would like to end their life with dignity. In addition, t...
If a situation came about where I was terminally ill and the doctors told me that I had just six months to live, I wouldn 't opt to end my life. This is probably because I’m young and I could desperately use those six months to see and do as much as I’d miss for the rest of my life. I’d ask that the doctor give me some medication for pain mediation, and then I’d scrape together whatever energy I had and I’d go travel and live what was left of my life. Even if I didn 't want to travel or I was bedridden, I’d still opt to live the time that I had left for the reasons that it would allow people who are close to me to spend time
Being in hospice care is a better alternative than being stuck in the hospital to try to avoid the unavoidable. Common misconceptions about Hospice could include that hospice makes life more miserable; however, a physician expressed his findings in Hospice,“You can only fail a patient if you fail to understand and respond to their needs. We may not be able to cure all of our patients, but if we can make them comfortable in the last moments of their lives, we will not have failed them”..Hospice care gradually emerged in the 1970s, when groups like the National Hospice Organization were formed “in response to the unmet needs of dying patients and their families for whom traditional medical care was no longer effective.”Herbert Hendin, an executive director of the American Suicide Foundations illustrates a story of a young man diagnosed with acute myelocytic leukemia and was expected to have only a few months before he died. He persistently asked the doctor to assist him, but he eventually accepted the medical treatment. His doctor told him he can use his time wisely to become close to his family. Two days before he died, Tim talked about what he would have missed without the opportunity for a
When faced with a terminal illness a person has to go through a process of thinking. What will happen to me? How long will I suffer? What kind of financial burden am I going to leave with my family when I am gone? What are my options? For many years the only legal options were to try a treatment plan, palliative care, hospice, and eventually death. For residents of Washington State, Oregon, and Vermont there is another option. They have the option to end their own life with a prescription from their physicians.
Imagine your laying in a hospital bed hooked up to various machines. The doctors and nurses are persistently coming in to check up on you while you’re trying to get through the pain, weakness and slow wasting away of your body. On top of that you are grieving the side effects from numerous drugs, constipation, restlessness, you can barely breathe. You have no appetite because you are constantly throwing up. The doctors have given you little to no chance of survival; and death is at hand, it is just a matter of when. You have said your goodbyes, you have come to terms with dying and you are ready to meet your creator. Now if you had the chance to choose how and when your life ended would you take advantage of it?
Moving forward, people should be able to be put out of their misery of their terminal illness. This is something that without a doubt will tear a person to shreds. This type of news, “can trigger feelings of depression, in both patient and loved one. These feelings can be severe or mild and can often be just one of the stages that a person goes through when learning of catastrophic news” (Terminal Illness). Some terminal illnesses this time is also very stressful with decisions that one can make. Although depending on what the patient has, the illness can be brutal and
In conclusion, legalizing physician assisted suicide will reduce health care costs by not having patients kept on expensive machines and needing expensive surgeries. Allowing patients to legally receive assistance with their suicides will allow doctors to manage their time on more promising patients instead of ones that will most likely die within a couple days to a couple of months. Legalizing assisted suicide will not only allow doctors to manage their time better, but gives the patient an option. Some worry about legalizing assisted suicide going against the doctor’s oath, but the patients are the ones who are suffering, not the doctors. Many believe that legalizing physician assisted suicide will allow options for the patients so they aren’t suffering anymore.
Conflict could be caused by deciding on medical treatments for the family member or even arguments over funeral arrangements. Physician assisted suicide can help with the family coming together to make this ultimate decision and to spare the burdens. Lastly, physician assisted suicide should be legal, because it is the patient’s right to die. Terminally ill patients no longer wish to have their lives artificially prolonged by expensive, painful, or debilitating treatments and would rather die quietly.
When you are diagnosed with a terminal illness there are many stages that you go through until you accept what is happenin...
I know some people will think and say that’s a sin or something like that but suffering has no argument and neither being a burden to someone, and that’s what a terminally ill patient is even if their family cares for them.
Do you feel its right to help someone who suffers from terminal illness to receive assisted suicide? Imagine one of your family members wanting doctor assisted to commit suicide, when they have a longer lifetime ahead, imagine the impact of everyone around them. Students, teachers and honorable judges, I believe any type of assisted suicide should be illegal altogether since assisted suicide is just like a third degree murder, doctors who decide to help are committing a crime, and this will lead to a close to life which also stop researchers to research for a cure.
In the next few pages I will be sharing other tragic situation on where death of a loved one caused a big affect on the people and the community around them. Not only the number of shots being fired and the indiscriminate nature of the shootings are alarming but the age of the children that's involved in these shooting is very shocking. if criminals stick together then the law enforcement must stick together. for instance we have to stop looking at overtime dollars and things of that nature when people go out and commit heinous crimes and murder people. Life should not have a price on it. people should not have to lose their life over money, I really think that's ridiculous. According to the article. I wasn't friends with a lot but I had enough
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