According to the article they are also deemed eligible if the patient is competent, have an ongoing relationship with their physician and also has a mutual understanding regarding the prognosis of their impending death. Furthermore, patient are able to utilizing a way that is less insufferable and more acceptable in the art of dying with dignity. Therefore, patients and physicians must have weighed and measured all options and also all resources has been exhausted or hope for survival has been lost. Physicians should evaluate the patients’ surroundings and whether it constitutes an effect on their overall decision whether or not to die with dignity. This writer believes that the decision to die with dignity should solely be made by the patient and physician because, while going through the process even though the individual may have loved ones with them, they are still making the journey
According to the article they are also deemed eligible if the patient is competent, have an ongoing relationship with their physician and also has a mutual understanding regarding the prognosis of their impending death. Furthermore, patient are able to utilizing a way that is less insufferable and more acceptable in the art of dying with dignity. Therefore, patients and physicians must have weighed and measured all options and also all resources has been exhausted or hope for survival has been lost. Physicians should evaluate the patients’ surroundings and whether it constitutes an effect on their overall decision whether or not to die with dignity. This writer believes that the decision to die with dignity should solely be made by the patient and physician because, while going through the process even though the individual may have loved ones with them, they are still making the journey