Category: Assisted Suicide

The goal of palliative care is to provide artificial support the end of their life is near. Palliative care can consist of: withholding or withdrawing futile treatment, which is not considered to be euthanasia or assisted suicide. Fully legal care of terminally sick people, such as withholding or withdrawing futile treatment, should mewer involve an…

When most people hear the term assisted suicide, they think of Doctor Jack Kevorkian. Doctor Kevorkian was an advocate for and practiced assisted suicide for nearly a decade before being thrown into prison for participating in a mercy killing of one of his patients. Among many other advocates, Doctor Kevorkian was by far the most…

The term assisted suicide is defined as a situation when a terminally ill patient voluntarily made a suicide request from a doctor and he will assist him by supplying equipment and lethal drugs to hasten the patients death. Eight states in the United States of America namely California, Colorado, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Oregon,…

According to the Death with Dignity website Physician-Assisted Dying or their preferred terminology death with dignity is defined as Death with dignity statutes allow mentally competent adult state residents who have a terminal illness with a confirmed prognosis of having 6 or fewer months to live to voluntarily request and receive a prescription medication to…

Synopsis of The story of Dax Cowart: In 1973 Donald ‘Dax’ Cowart, a 25-year-old, and his father were victims of a pipeline explosion in east Texas. From the earliest moments following the explosion, Cowart insisted on being permitted to die ._Dax was rushed to the Burn Treatment Unit of Parkland Hospital in Dallas. As the…

The subject of euthanasia is never a straightforward one. The word euthanasia is derived from the Greek language where ‘eu means good’ and ‘euthanasia means death’. It is also known as ‘mercy killing,’ and is referred to as being an act that deliberately ends a person’s life. This could be because the individual is suffering…

Many people in society believe that life should end naturally. Moreover, life should be preserved to make sure that one lives as long as possible. There is a debate about whether assisted suicide is morally right or wrong. Assisted suicide is defined as a patient that suffers from an incurable condition and or terminal illness…

Each year, around 1.5 million shelter animals are euthanized to make room for new strays, to whom the same process would undergo the following year (qtd. in ASPCA). Even more are put down due to age, health, and personal reasons. Regardless of the purpose behind it, is euthanizing animals ethical? For some background information, ethics…

Introduction: The way that we carry on with our life, the way we are supported nearing the end of our lives, and our actual death affects individuals close to us. If there is one thing certain about life, it is the fact that we all will eventually die, the important question is, when? It is…

The Community has certain rules and cultures, some of which are understandable since they can help bring peace and balance, and some of these rules are inhumane and would set the Community into chaos if they realized how messed up their rules and cultures are. Their rules are quite hard to understand and some are…