Voluntary association

I. Introduction A. Attention Getter: As hard as it may be for some of us, I would like all of you to imagine yourself not being able to walk and you are barely able to breath, let alone speak along with not being able to eat, severe weight loss and muscle fatigue. You are in such unbearable pain and you cry out for help but no one seems to listen. You are beginning to feel like a burden on your family acquiring all these medical bills putting them further in debt. You’ve been in the hospital for…

Legal State of Euthanasia: Preservation or Condemnation Imagine lying on a hospital bed in a state of perpetual intense agony with no sign of relief within the distant future and being reduced to a completely undignified and incompetent human being. If only there was a way to end it all, in a quick and painless way. Why prolong the inevitable in favor of a few more stretched moments of suffering. There is one solution that comes to mind; doctors should be able to legally end their patient’s…

What are Thanatos and Eros, are they the Greek Gods of death and love in mythology? Are they a symbol representing a hidden culture, are they theories? I wondered the same thing myself as I discovered these foils. These contrasting words are actually two theories created by a man known as Sigmund Freud but who is this man you might ask? Sigmund Freud is (well was) born Sigmund Schlomo Freud, he was born may 6, 1856. Freud was born in Moravia, Austria but oddly enough he had Jewish…

The terror management theory (TMT) is a concept that focuses on the psychology of mortality. Since death is inevitable and uncontrollable, we as individuals suppress our inner thoughts surrounding mortality. The perception of death comes from an individualistic viewpoint. Societal and cultural factors influence our perceptions of death and construct what death means to us and how we view our existence. Terror Management theory defines these psychological constructs as anxiety buffers. Some…

causing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals (such as persons or domestic animals) in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy” and can be categories as non-voluntary, involuntary, and voluntary or passive, and active. Involuntary euthanasia is conducted without consent; voluntary…

In 1973, the American Medical Association made an official statement on the topic of euthanasia. The AMA said that the intentional end of a life, or “mercy killing”, is a direct contradiction to what the medical profession stands for, but they said that the end of extraordinary means to keep someone alive is permitted. Rachel says that the statements leads to a distinction between intentionally killing and letting die. While this distinction is a big one, Rachel says thats its an morally…

Is it irrational to fear death? Lucretius believes that death is not bad for the one who has died. Imagine that a young John Doe was run over by a trolley and died. If at death, the person ceases to exist, is being dead bad for Doe? It isn’t bad for him because he is no longer here. There is no more to his story. Lucretius presents two arguments to support the view that ‘death means nothing to us’; the first argument is the standard Epicurean notion of the soul, based on their physics; the…

you do? It’s a hard decision either way you look at your choice. If you could end your life could you do it? With medical research in today’s society you almost know if you will die with the illness you have. “Voluntary active euthanasia refers to a clearly competent patient making a voluntary and persistent request for aid in dying” (Brock, 1999). It’s a good question many have done and some not. A lot of times you will see more written then for assisted sucide. This is understandable In my…

Ms. Gorgonia Nazianzus ought to have her daughter, Philippa, as a surrogate when the time comes to make medical decisions that she will be unable to make on her own. P lives a couple of hours away and has visited her mother at least once a month unlike Nonna, who has not visited in the last two decades. Also, GN had the confidence in confiding to P that she did not want to be hooked up to machines for the rest of her life and that shows GN has a great amount of trust in P. Although the…

another method of murder. Although euthanasia can only be considered murder if the person is euthanized involuntary or nonvoluntary. This are two of the three ways of being euthanized, with the other being voluntary. Voluntary means that the person consented to being euthanized. While non voluntary and involuntary euthanasia is performed when that person can’t give the consent themselves or someone else makes the decision for them. Murder is defined as the killing of one human being by another,…