Physician Assisted Suicide
David Velleman claims that hastening a patient’s death would be an affront to their dignity prior to the onset of twilight autonomy but justified during this period. The relationship between an individual’s interest, values and why hastening someone’s death is not an offense when it is done for the sake of one’s dignity. When someone’s dignity is at risk their derivative value is deteriorating and it is in their best interest to hasten the patient’s death. When a person is under attack by a disease death is not a disrespect to their dignity and physician assisted suicide is in favor. Twilight autonomy is the beginning stages of dementia. The patient has begun to have impaired communication, focus, and reasoning. …show more content…
It is not up to the doctor to make the final decision. That the person knows their dignity better than anyone else and can fight to regain their interest and value. You are an expert in your own happiness and happiness is a part of your dignity. If you are able to control your happiness, then you are able to control your dignity. By having a patient with dementia, they could believe they still have dignity because they are living in the past. They recall memories from years past and begin to live in that time. If you asked a person with dementia if they still had their dignity (well-being, values, interests) they would tell you yes because they don’t know what they are going through. If the patient comes to terms with their memory loss and are put into a home in order to carry out their life, but under the watch of a team of nurses then that is their decision. By making this decision they are fighting to keep their dignity. The patient used to be rational. If the disease has destroyed the rationality and dignity of the patient then its effects cannot be an offense since the patient’s value is gone. Degrading a person due to suffering from a disease are still aware of themselves. They are in distress and cannot act rationally. The patient is now acting as someone with that level of competency or level of reasoning would act but, they are still a person. They still have reasoning, …show more content…
Once a person losing the dignity they begin to lose the right to live. Their interest and values are what makes them an active well-being in society. When this is no longer there what do you have? Therefore, when dealing with a patient with dementia you either have the choice to sit back and watch them struggle through everyday life or take control and decide what is best for them, which would be death. Physician assisted suicide is not bad, it is caring for the well-being of a human. Taking the right steps in order to achieve a goal of death for someone that has a terminal
David Velleman claims that hastening a patient’s death would be an affront to their dignity prior to the onset of twilight autonomy but justified during this period. The relationship between an individual’s interest, values and why hastening someone’s death is not an offense when it is done for the sake of one’s dignity. When someone’s dignity is at risk their derivative value is deteriorating and it is in their best interest to hasten the patient’s death. When a person is under attack by a disease death is not a disrespect to their dignity and physician assisted suicide is in favor. Twilight autonomy is the beginning stages of dementia. The patient has begun to have impaired communication, focus, and reasoning. …show more content…
It is not up to the doctor to make the final decision. That the person knows their dignity better than anyone else and can fight to regain their interest and value. You are an expert in your own happiness and happiness is a part of your dignity. If you are able to control your happiness, then you are able to control your dignity. By having a patient with dementia, they could believe they still have dignity because they are living in the past. They recall memories from years past and begin to live in that time. If you asked a person with dementia if they still had their dignity (well-being, values, interests) they would tell you yes because they don’t know what they are going through. If the patient comes to terms with their memory loss and are put into a home in order to carry out their life, but under the watch of a team of nurses then that is their decision. By making this decision they are fighting to keep their dignity. The patient used to be rational. If the disease has destroyed the rationality and dignity of the patient then its effects cannot be an offense since the patient’s value is gone. Degrading a person due to suffering from a disease are still aware of themselves. They are in distress and cannot act rationally. The patient is now acting as someone with that level of competency or level of reasoning would act but, they are still a person. They still have reasoning, …show more content…
Once a person losing the dignity they begin to lose the right to live. Their interest and values are what makes them an active well-being in society. When this is no longer there what do you have? Therefore, when dealing with a patient with dementia you either have the choice to sit back and watch them struggle through everyday life or take control and decide what is best for them, which would be death. Physician assisted suicide is not bad, it is caring for the well-being of a human. Taking the right steps in order to achieve a goal of death for someone that has a terminal