Life after death

Help Me Die! Brittany Maynard was a twenty-four year older in the happiest time of her life. She had been married for a little over a year and was trying for a baby. However, her life took an unexpected turn for the worst when she learned that she was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Most of her time and money was then wasted away to hospital visits, medical tests, and doctor meetings. In the process, there was an effort made to stop the growth of her tumor but it failed. In April, the brain…

wondered what life would be like if you were unable to rationally think for yourself, speak for yourself or emotionally accept yourself, lying in a hospital bed unable to convey that you wouldn 't want to live this life anymore? Instead, maybe you are able to portray what you want in life but life has made things complicated by throwing you a curveball of irreversible brain cancer or any terminal illness for that matter. Would you be willing to end your life if you had the chance to live a life…

he tells the jury, “...a good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and that his affairs are not neglected by the gods” (Grube 41c-d). It is hard to believe that the jury could find him guilty of atheism when he appears to have been blessed by the gods with this capacity for human wisdom. Socrates is nothing if not a virtuous man, as evidenced in his statement: “I would much rather die after this kind of defense than live after making the other kind” (Grube 38e). It is evident that it…

they normally wouldn’t do. A loved one’s death can significantly affect a person’s mental health, leading to mental and emotional instability. In The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, the main character, Holden, still struggles with mental instability as a result of the loss of his younger brother. He wanders around the streets of New York trying to find the person he once was when his brother was alive. He loved his brother a great deal, and his death ultimately became the downfall of…

slowly wither away to a shell of a human. I saw the life slowly ebb out of her, behind a mask of pain and untold indignities, until she was unrecognizable as the vibrant person I once knew. Motivated by the thought of her son growing up without her, she fought with every ounce of strength in her body until the last day she was conscious, seeking every medical treatment available. Tragically, the cancer prevailed and her life ended one month after the tumor was discovered. Fortunately her…

Should Euthanasia be a Supported Way of Death? Jack Kevorkian once said, “If you don 't have liberty and self-determination, you 've got nothing, that 's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you 're going to die when you 're suffering.” Many people like to think that euthanasia is inhumane because it is the killing of another person, this is simply not the case. Euthanasia should be supported because it relieves…

The Right to Die The Vermont Death with Dignity Statute is a result of a 10-year campaign know as - Patient Choice and Control at the End of Life, Act 39 - and was passed through the state legislature on May 20, 2013. When the law passed it immediately became effective and Vermont became the 1st state of 3 in the U.S. to pass the death with dignity law. The original act resulted in a 10-year campaign and had certain provisions for patient protection that required a psychological evaluation to…

through the process of ending their life, usually done by medication, counseling them through the lethal doses of drugs that would be used, prescribing and supplying said drugs to the patient. Many people do not agree with this act, mostly due to religious beliefs. In fact, out of the 50 states in our country, only 5 provide these kind of services. But when you really dwell on the idea, is it ethically acceptable for a physician to assist someone in ending their life way before nature takes its…

Physician Assisted Suicide Physician assisted suicide is when a physician intentionally and knowingly provides the means of death to another person so that person can use it to commit suicide. An example of physician assisted suicide (PAS) would be providing a lethal amount of drugs or providing a plastic bag and helium, this is only classified as PAS when the person who dies makes the last act in the commitment of suicide. People often use physician assisted suicide/euthanasia interchangeably.…

This poem is written by Walt Whitman and is a product of the death of President Lincoln in the year, 1865. This piece elaborates on the mourning of the states after the Civil War and Lincoln’s assassination. Goes on to speak of death and the rationalities that go along with the idea. Whitman starts off talking of the legacy of Lincoln had left behind when he had passed away. Introduces the star, the lilac and the bird which all have their own form of symbolism. The star is associated with…