BACKGROUND We, Elizabeth, Jessica and Raina are studying Biotechnology- Forensics Advance in Fleming College. This report was prepared as an assignment for Technical Communications, as a Group Presentation Report. The report looks at the status of Physician Assisted Suicide (PAS) in Canada. Being a contemporary medical, ethical and legal issue, we found it to be an apt report topic.…
Attribution error becomes more evident in the therapy session with the group. Brian says that he considers all of them to be friends. However, he wonders after Monday if things will go back to normal or they probably will not speak to each other again. Claire states to Brian, if Andrew will see him in the hall on Monday he would acknowledge his present.…
On New Year’s Eve, Brittany Maynard was diagnosed with stage 4 glioblastoma, a fatal malignant brain tumor. Since there were no effective treatments for this terminal illness, Maynard had only six months to live before the end stages of the cancer when the brain expands and presses against her…
She is a 29-year-old female who was diagnosed with incurable brain cancer, which would consume her life in a couple of months. Brittany became the spokeswoman for death with dignity laws before her passing. Do you think Brittany Maynard just wants to die? Brittany stated, "I don't want to die," Maynard told CBS News correspondent Jan Crawford in mid-October. "If anyone wants to hand me, like, a magical cure and save my life so that I can have children with my husband, you know, I will take them up on it."…
Well-known writer, Annabelle Gurwitch, in her article, Death Without Dignity, describes the effects of allowing euthanasia in all states of the United States. Euthanasia is not accepted in all states as of today. Physician aid in dying, or assisted suicide, is legal in the states of Vermont, Oregon, Montana, and Washington. The key difference between euthanasia and physician aid in dying is who administers the lethal dose of medication. Gurwitch’s purpose of this article is to persuade her readers to the benefits of allowing euthanasia and to encourage them to make this a “normal” way of leaving this world.…
It is of the opinion of this writer that while I do see where this type of policy could and maybe should be removed, the real instituting of Death with Dignity policies need to be more established. The reasons are very numerous and vary in application. Depression is often a temporary thing. Many reasons are not the problem of a person living beyond their use but the inability to afford adequate health care. I think that we need to look harder at the issues that surround the persons/people seeking this kind of solution and start building some serious policy.…
Death With Dignity: Is it Ethical or Not? Brittany Maynard was a 29 year old young woman with terminal brain tumor that decided to take her own life. Maynard moved to Oregon so she could "die with dignity" which is being assisted in one's death by a physician. People will fall on two sides of this case there are those that support Maynard's decision to die with dignity and others do not support her decision and view it as ethically wrong.…
Outline for Arguments on PAS and Euthanasia When addressing the matter of Euthanasia and PAS, “we must first acknowledge that figuring out the benefits and harms of permitting euthanasia or PAS is speculative at best” (Emanuel). As well, it is important to acknowledge the fact that, “no matter which social policy regarding euthanasia or PAS is adopted - legalization or maintaining the current policy of permitting them in individual cases - there will be both benefits and harms” (Emanuel). In this argument, it will be shown that legalizing Euthanasia and PAS within the United States, will help people, by allowing terminally ill patients to realize the end of a good death or, more accurately, a create a higher quality dying experience for them.…
Her video went viral and “she quickly became a spokeswoman for right-to-die advocacy groups and spoke in favor of the laws” (Brittany Maynard). Along with advocate Brittany Maynard, the Death with Dignity National Center has been fighting court cases and trying to convince legislatures to adopt the act. “From 2001 to 2006 we defended Oregon’s law against U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft who attempted to block it by authorizing federal drug agents to prosecute doctors who prescribed life-ending medication to help terminally ill patients die... the U.S. Supreme Court voted 6 to 3 in favor of Death with Dignity”(History-Death with Dignity). The court cases and legislature talks did not always go the way the National Center wanted but they have not stopped…
Brittney Maynard, a 29 year old from Los Angeles, was diagnosed with a rare form of brain cancer knows as glioblastoma. This type of brain cancer causes tumors that arise from astrocytes—the cells that make up the supportive tissue of the brain. These tumors are usually highly cancerous because the cells reproduce quickly and they are supported by a large network of blood vessels. When Maynard was first diagnosed with the brain cancer this past year, she was given the life expectancy of at least 10 years. Within 3 months after being diagnosed, her health slowly began to decline.…
On November 1st 2014, Brittany Maynard laid in bed surrounded by loved ones. She had chosen this day to drink the fatal dose of medication she was prescribed. She no longer wanted to suffer from head and neck pains, surgeries, seizures, and stroke like symptoms she endured from her terminal brain cancer. She had to leave her home state and make a whole new life in Oregon months prior. She states,” I had to find new physicians, establish residency in Portland, search for a new home, obtain a new driver 's license, change my voter registration and enlist people to take care of our animals, and my husband, Dan, had to take a leave of absence from his job.”…
Sometimes when life and suffering become unbearable, death offers a welcome escape. When it is a question between seeking expensive long term treatment or ending one’s suffering altogether, assisted suicide, Death with Dignity, gives someone a choice whether or not to end their life. Death with Dignity refers to a person’s legal right to end one’s life. This “solution” to pain and suffering is often frowned upon for various reasons in many religions and by specific individuals such as doctors, nurses, and family members. Despite these objections, death with dignity should be legal throughout the United States because it gives people a chance to decide what is best for themselves, it costs a lot less money than a long-term treatment, and it ends their suffering.…
As a human race we crave control. Control of our work, control of our government, and now some even crave control of death. The “Death with Dignity” act promotes physician assisted suicide (PAS), providing an unethical and alarming “solution” to suffering or loss of hope. This bill contains numerous flaws which endanger the weakest and most vulnerable members of our society.…
Brittany Maynard is an ordinary 29 year old woman. Her and her husband, Dan Diaz, is trying to start a family after being married for a little over a year. After months of enduring unbearable headaches, Brittany has learned that she has brain cancer. After undergoing two surgeries to stop the growth of the tumor, Brittany learns that the tumor has returned. However, the tumor is more aggressive upon its return.…
If you are a loved one was told you had six months left to live and could end up debilitating quickly from a terminal disease, what would you do? Would you go for hospice, palliative care, pain management, or would you consider death with dignity. Death with dignity is something some are not aware of this; as it is legal in only three states, legal with court approved in three states, eleven states considering it, twelve states considered it but did not pass the legislation, and eleven states with no activity with death with dignity. Death with dignity I feel should be a great law for all fifty states to pick up and it definitely would be my choice if I was ever given six months of life to live with a debilitating painful disease.…