Medical ethics

leading the patient into thinking assisted suicide is the best choice. Doctors also support and acknowledge people who refuse to be treated, but they are against being part of helping somehow to die. Those against physician assisted death say that ethics is not only a matter of consequence or giving in to a person’s desire to end life. It is the recognition that another person, regardless if he or she is dying of a terminal illness, is still a valuable human being (ConnectUs). Doctors should not…

suicide is wrong. According to Dr. Kass, “the prohibition against killing patients stands as the first promise of self-restraint sworn to in the Hippocratic Oath as medicine’s primary taboo.” Another Physician, Josef Kure, Head of the Department of Medical Ethics at Masaryk University (Czech Republic) believes that “the killing…

editorialist, Liz Sabo, explores the differences between states of consciousness and brain death in her post,”The Ethics Of Being Brain Dead: Doctors And Bioethicists Discuss Jahi McMath And Marlise Munoz”. Sabo looks at the different types of treatment for the types of different states of consciousness in order to show that a brain dead person is no longer considered alive. Sabo looks to medical facts in order to show that keeping someone who is brain dead on life support is unethical.…

According to Phillip Nitschke, author and founder and director of the pro-euthanasia group Exit International, “Does not doing harm mean that we should prolong a life that the patient sees as a painful burden? Surely, the ‘harm’ in this instance is done when we prolong the life, and ‘doing no harm’ means that we should help the patient die” (“The Argument For Assisted Suicide” 2). Euthanasia is one of the most debatable topics in the United States. Assisted suicide imposes many questions…

debilitating illnesses and diseases with no chances of a cure or die an earlier death with a little of our dignity and financial security intact, up to legislation? These are some of the questions brought to light in one of the most highly debated medical ethics questions. There are many factors that play into both sides that support the argument of the legalization of euthanasia. With that, there are many methods to carrying out this act in a controlled manner. The issue with this is the…

The term “Euthanasia” originally means good death, now commonly known as mercy killing. The modern meaning of euthanasia according to BBC special report it is described as any action or omission intended to end the life of a patient on the grounds that his or her life is not worth living. Legalization of euthanasia has been a debatable topic in many countries with different views in terms of legal and ethical consideration for both healthcare providers and patients. (Fraser & Walters, 2000) With…

Jack Kevorkian, also known as “Doctor Death”, tested this theory by assisting patients in suicide during the 1990’s. Assisted suicide was merely an idea in the medical field until Kevorkian’s actions made them fully consider the possibility. Man has the ability of whether or not he will choose to go down the path where the principles stand tall, or where they cower. Converting to death and taking the easy way out…

believe that it goes against certain religious beliefs and medical ethics while others note that people diagnosed with terminal diseases should have the right to choose between life and death. Nonetheless, PAS can be a positive…

The Uses of Euthanasia in Today’s Society Matthew Donnelly was a middle-aged man who was consumed by skin cancer; he was no one of great importance, but simply was a man who loved life too much to leave it in pain. Matthew pleaded to the doctors to end this misery, but they refused because killing a man just to put him out of his misery would be immoral. People had not considered assisted suicide until the 1990’s when a man named Jack Kevorkian sparked the idea. Jack Kevorkian, or better known…

argues the ethnic rights of the patient who refuse life support to keep him alive. Mr.R.L. is an 80–year-old man who verbally expressed he would like to end his life by shooting himself with a loaded handgun. Although in his current condition, his medical doctor is aware of his full-blown depression, which his treated with anti- depressant medications. However, his health is declining even further after determined that R.L suffered a heart attack and needed dialysis three times a week. The…