Both Sandeep Jauhar, and Diane Coleman read an article about Brittany Maynard, who was suffering a rare brain tumor, moved to Oregon so she can legally take her own life with a prescription drug. They both showed some differences and stand on different opposition on the issue of assisted suicide. Sandeep Jauhar, a cardiologist wrote “When assisted suicide is not the answer”, published in 2014 online on CNN website. In his article he argues how patients are given no other option, and show that death is the only means of escape of the pain they’re going through, when there’s hospice that can be offered to them. Coleman, President and CEO of Not Dead Yet, a disability right group, wrote “Who’s really hurt by assisted suicide?” published on the
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An 84 year old woman with major heart failure pleased the doctor to assist on her death. He goes on describing the pain she’s been feeling, shortness of breath, and the hassle of going back and forth from to the hospital. He then takes the situation to the ethics committee, but denied the request suggesting to relieve her pain with medicine. With the family permission he did so, and arranged for her to be placed in for a home hospice care, but she passed away before she could be transferred. Jauhar then breaks down how useful hospice care can be, and that this can be offered to patients when they are suffering with a terminal disease. In Coleman article, however, she states that the death of Brittany Maynard has made the media go into frenzy, and made it seem like there were only two group involved, the religious extremist, or right-wing busybodies. She tells us that she is on neither side and is a advocate for disability rights, bringing out her credentials’ as a CEO of a organization fighting for that, also being a disable person herself. Throughout her article she writes about how assisted suicide can ultimately affect everyone as whole. She tells her audience about statistics of patient’s receiving and taking the lethal prescription, but suggests only a small number was giving no other option. Bringing in a story about Barbara Wagner who was in need in chemotherapy but Oregon’s state run health care plan rejected the coverage and offered other “treatments” with assisted suicide being one of them. Coleman then shifts if the patient were to take this drug, she explains that in Oregon, Washington, and Vermont, where assisted suicide is legal, has no laws preventing caregivers to offer an opinion to the ill patient on the ending their life. And once signing the consent form there is no other witness to administer at the time of death. She then continues to outline how in other
An 84 year old woman with major heart failure pleased the doctor to assist on her death. He goes on describing the pain she’s been feeling, shortness of breath, and the hassle of going back and forth from to the hospital. He then takes the situation to the ethics committee, but denied the request suggesting to relieve her pain with medicine. With the family permission he did so, and arranged for her to be placed in for a home hospice care, but she passed away before she could be transferred. Jauhar then breaks down how useful hospice care can be, and that this can be offered to patients when they are suffering with a terminal disease. In Coleman article, however, she states that the death of Brittany Maynard has made the media go into frenzy, and made it seem like there were only two group involved, the religious extremist, or right-wing busybodies. She tells us that she is on neither side and is a advocate for disability rights, bringing out her credentials’ as a CEO of a organization fighting for that, also being a disable person herself. Throughout her article she writes about how assisted suicide can ultimately affect everyone as whole. She tells her audience about statistics of patient’s receiving and taking the lethal prescription, but suggests only a small number was giving no other option. Bringing in a story about Barbara Wagner who was in need in chemotherapy but Oregon’s state run health care plan rejected the coverage and offered other “treatments” with assisted suicide being one of them. Coleman then shifts if the patient were to take this drug, she explains that in Oregon, Washington, and Vermont, where assisted suicide is legal, has no laws preventing caregivers to offer an opinion to the ill patient on the ending their life. And once signing the consent form there is no other witness to administer at the time of death. She then continues to outline how in other