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legalization of euthanasia and its effects on psychology, sociology, and politics

the social issue that he chose to present is the legalisation of euthanasia and its effects on the social science domains, which are psychology, sociology and politics. This subject encompasses issues they're related to ethics, human worlds and the value of human life. So what is euthanasia? Euthanasia is a practice within the medical field that is defined as death by medical aid or assisted dying physician assisted suicide. The doctor may provide the patient with the means to end their life, but the patient performs the lethal act themselves. Most recently, it has come to mean mercy killing, deliberately putting an end to someone's life, to spare the individual suffering. I like the fact it is used to relieve people who have no hope of living. Assisted dying is seen in a bad light like abortion, capital punishment and other concerns related to the beginning or end of human life. The main aspects that contribute to euthanasia being a social issue are the ethics of human life and the right to live, which are valued in society, influenced by questions such as whether it is morally acceptable to take the life of a terminally ill patient or to assist a patient taking their own life. It is identified as a problem that must be addressed. At first, euthanasia did not carry the negative politician of suicide. The focus was on hastening death, but rather on the manner of ones die. The important thing was for the dying person to meet that with peace and line and minimal pain. But with time, culture and religion has changed the meaning of euthanasia in a more negative way. The rise of Christianity and its views that Cuban life is a blessing from God. Emphasised euthanasia is something sacrilegious to life and condemned the act of suicide or anything related to it. This in itself, create a base for the negative views which would further on be propagated into modern times. Euthanasia is something that allow a human to keep their dignity by choosing when and how they will die. The concept of dying with dignity is based on whether an individual can determine if their life has become too painful to bear, has lost all meaning dust have the final choice in their light, instead dying to terminal illness, which creates peace of mind. Euthanasia is used as a means to relieve a patient but still implies the action of killing someone or assisting them in dying. The notion of killing in itself goes against the laws of the world and the values of a health care worker. The value of a human life is probably wine and eyes where a lot of people you don't want to get involved. I like the fact that the actions of euthanasia may seem wrong. Patients who have no hope of living only wish to take control of what they have left, which is their death, thus resulting in positive debates for euthanasia due to people wish to end their lives. Following the law, the psychological state of a person defines and determines the need for euthanasia. This applies to the friendlies and the health care workers as well. Knowing that there is impending death, the patient will be put under psychological and physical stress. Now, regret and many more emotions can have influence over the choices When it comes to mercy count. The biggest concern way comes to the state of mind is choosing when, where and how they wish to duck. Thus lifestyle and the power to influence how their life finishes are central psychological components, dignity, pain and suffering, or the main topics when it comes to the patients themselves. Individually suffering is not only applied from fiscal paint ball, so from grief, regret and misery of having to be diagnosed with an impending death. The news of a terminal illness gives indication to the end of a way of life assisted, dying or planned. Euthanasia allows the patient to evade the potential or possible pain from the diagnosis and feel like they're less of a preacher. Burning the care of the patient is essential within the health care system. But when taking into consideration assisted suicide that should not stop professionals from doing their job. I like the fact that positions followed the Hippocratic oath. It is essential to care for the needs of a patient that's under an immense stress, such as a term walk on. This understanding society and their views on euthanasia will help in breaking down the ideas that make up assisted suicide. People are afraid of death and answer negatively to subject will lead to it. Thus focusing on the interactions between healthcare professionals such as physicians and nurses, and the population will further enhance the understanding of why euthanasia should be legalized or not. The importance of saving lives is an aspect that is highly valued within the medical field. But ignoring a patient's request for assisted suicide is just a negligent as ignoring a patient dies. Physicians were unwilling to act on a legal and formal request. Only put euthanasia in a bad light due to the rejection of the idea. The legal actions are required for family and health care. Worker relationship are also keen to the application of euthanasia. This is due to the family seeking toe honor the patients of telling me ending pain and suffering while keeping sanctity of human life. The health care worker in question was communicate with the family and patients assist with the process of their choices. Understanding political laws will help break down the thought process of euthanasia and the reason for legalization. One of the essential reasons for legalizing euthanasia is for the patients who have no other means to live on were preferred toe legally died by the law. This allows for patients away their values of their lives and also contemplate on their future actions. When diagnosed with the inevitable, euthanasia is only legal when the patient comes to terms with the criteria laid down by the country or association affiliated with assisted suicide. Only then is a physician concerned immune from criminal prosecution. However, a patient does not have an absolute right to euthanasia and physicians no absolute duty to perform it either. Euthanasia may have boundaries when it comes to ethical and moral issues. But the fact that assistant medical death relieves a certain percentage of the population cannot be forgotten either, thus indicating that the issues that relate to morals and ethics of human life or determined through the means of the society depending on the context, euthanasia is necessary. But it's an action that must be controlled, regulated and observed. The society itself must be able to understand what the action of death compromises up. It must be able to uphold the rules off assisted Susan

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Euthanasia. Student created 2005- 2009. Euthanasia. Euthanasia definition. Euthanasia: the intentional killing by act or omission of a dependent human being for his or her alleged benefit. (The key word here is "intentional". If death is not intended, it is not an act of euthanasia)

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Euthanasia Student created 2005- 2009

Euthanasia definition Euthanasia: the intentional killing by act or omission of a dependent human being for his or her alleged benefit. (The key word here is "intentional". If death is not intended, it is not an act of euthanasia) Voluntary euthanasia: When the person who is killed has requested to be killed. Non-voluntary: When the patient who is killed made no request and gave no consent. Involuntary euthanasia: When the person who is killed made an expressed wish to the contrary.

Euthanasia Assisted suicide: Someone provides an individual with the information, guidance, and means to take his or her own life with the intention that they will be used for this purpose. When it is a doctor who helps another person to kill themselves it is called "physician assisted suicide." Euthanasia By Action: Intentionally causing a person's death by performing an action such as by giving a lethal injection. Euthanasia By Omission: Intentionally causing death by not providing necessary and ordinary (usual and customary) care or food and water.

More on Two Types of Euthanasia 1. Active or Direct 2. Passive or Indirect

Active or Direct • taking deliberate steps to end the life of a suffering and incurably ill person. • This can occur with or without the consent of the patient. • Active euthanasia involves the direct and intentional taking of life.

Passive or Indirect • deliberately not taking steps to prevent a sick person’s death, with the desire and intention that this “withholding” will lead to death. • May occur with or without consent of patient. • Passive euthanasia is taking a life, however well- or ill-meaning the intention.

History • 400 B.C. - The Hippocratic Oath • “I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked, nor suggest any such counsel.” • 14th through 20th Century - English Common Law • “For over 700 years, the Anglo American common law tradition has punished or otherwise disapproved of both suicide and assisting suicide.” • 19th Century - Washington vs. Glucksberg • “The right to life and to personal security is not only sacred in the estimation of the common law, but it is inalienable.” • 1939 - Nazi Germany • Hitler ordered widespread mercy killing of the sick and disabled. • 1995 - Australia’s Northern Territory Approves a Euthanasia Bill • Went into effect in 1996, but it was overturned by the Australian Parliament in 1997 • 1998 - Oregon Legalizes Assisted - Suicide • 2000 - Netherlands Legalizes Euthanasia

Oregon's Death with Dignity Act • On October 27, 1997 physician-assisted suicide became a legal medical option for terminally ill Oregonians. The Oregon Death with Dignity Act requires that the Oregon Health Services (OHS) monitor compliance with the law, collect information about the patients and physicians who participate in legal physician-assisted suicide, and publish an annual statistical report.

United States • Oregon becomes the first US state to legalize assisted suicide with the "Death With Dignity Act." Washington state followed in November 2008 and a Montana court supported an individual euthanasia case in December 2008. http://euthanasia.procon.org/viewresource.asp?resourceID=000130

Pro Euthanasia • “Death with Dignity” means that patients die peacefully, surrounded by their families and doctors, instead of being suffocated by plastic bags or gassed with carbon monoxide as it happens now. • Modern Technology keeps people alive hooked up to Machines. • Government doesn’t have the right to keep people alive.

Pro continued… • People should have the right to commit suicide. • Euthanasia should be provided to people who are terminally ill. • Euthanasia sometimes is the only way to relieve excruciating pain. • Opposition to Euthanasia is just an attempt to impose religious beliefs on others. • Suicide isn’t against the law; why should it be illegal to help someone commit suicide?

“The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government.” - Thomas Jefferson

CON • People who have been gassed to death by Jack Kevorkian have been left in the back seat of cars in abandoned parking lots. • Other attempts to legalize it have only legitimized the use of plastic bags and gassed death. • Families sometimes have to watch an injection that will lead to violent convulsions and muscle spasms.

Con continued • The law already permits patients (or their surrogates) to choose not to be forced to remain alive by being hooked up to machines or to choose for various interventions to be withheld. • Neither the law or medical ethics requires that everything be done to keep a person alive.

Con etc…. • Laws against Euthanasia are in place to prevent abuse and to protect people from unscrupulous doctors and others. They are not intended to make anyone suffer. • “Euthanasia isn’t about the right to die, its about the right to kill!” • The term “Terminal” is not very clearly defined.

The Morality Issue • Death-a person is dead when essential life systems no longer function (lungs, brain, heart, etc.) • Threshold of life and death seem clearly defined.

The Morality Issue cont’d • In reality, the threshold between life and death is made unclear though the complexity in the dying process. • New and improved medical technology raise important new moral decisions.

The Church’s Principles • Life is a gift from God • It must be protected by all reasonable means • Dying is a natural process • The refusal and withdrawal of drugs and other interventions are not of themselves euthanasia • Humans are not separate disconnected individuals • As a community, they have the duty to care for and to enhance the life of an individual • The measure of society’s integrity is its capacity to care for the most weak and vulnerable • People should not feel like they have a “duty to die”

The Church’s Position • Church teaching condemns euthanasia. • “Euthanasia in the strict sense is understood to be an action or omission which of itself and by intention causes death, with the purpose of eliminating all suffering.” -Pope John Paul II (The Gospel of Life, number 65)

Further Explanation of Church’s Position • The Pope recognizes that sometimes people use the term to refer to actions that are not, strictly speaking, euthanasia. • He points out that the same action may or may not fall under this strict definition of “euthanasia” depending on the kind of act and the intention behind the action.

The Church’s Position • God’s grace can come through even in times of great sorrow and loss such as those accompanying the dying of a loved one.

The Catholic Church • Allowing Death to Occur is Not the Same as Killing • “When inevitable death is imminent in spite of the means used, it is permitted in conscience to take the decision to refuse forms of treatment that would only secure a precarious and burdensome prolongation of life” – Declaration of Euthanasia, number 4

Further Explanation of Church’s Position • The refusal of “over-zealous” treatment for a terminally ill patient is not euthanasia.

Further Explanation of Church’s Position • Discontinuing medical procedures that are burdensome, dangerous, extraordinary, or disproportionate to the expected outcome is not euthanasia. --2278 Catechism

The Catholic Church “Even if death is thought imminent, the ordinary care owed to a sick person cannot be legitimately interrupted.  The use of painkillers to alleviate the sufferings of the dying, even at the risk of shortening their days, can be morally in conformity with human dignity if death is not willed as either an end or a means, but only foreseen and tolerated as inevitable.”  --2279 Catechism

The Catholic Church and Euthanasia By Omission • Euthanasia By Omission is not acceptable : Intentionally causing death by not providing necessary and ordinary (usual and customary) care or food and water.

Jack Kevorkian • DR. JACK KEVORKIAN operates on a simple philosophy: People have a right to avoid a lingering, miserable death by ending their own lives with help from a physician who can ensure that they die peacefully.

Dr. Kevorkian • In the late 1980s Kevorkian built a machine that helped people commit suicide by giving them a narcotic followed by a lethal dose of potassium chloride. Kevorkian found his first client in Janet Adkins.

Dr. Kevorkian • Dr. Kevorkian has helped at least 130 people kill themselves.

Dr. Kevorkian • Dr. Kevorkian was released from prison in 2007.

What We Should Do • Get a living will or a designated decision maker for the the patient • Living Will a declaration that a competent adult makes identifying the medical care desired if he becomes incapacitated • Designated Decision Maker someone appointed to make decisions for a person who is incapacitated • Be a part of the hospice movement • Hospice an intense multi-faceted, spiritually based approach to assisting people through the dying process

Hospice • Considers death and dying as normal aspects of life • Advocates family involvement in caring for the dying person, including care within the person’s home for as long as it is beneficial • Seeks to help those who are dying to be givers as well as receivers of care in the community of mutual support • Actively involves dying persons in decisions • Sees the spiritual dimensions as very important for dying persons and fosters spiritual preparation for death

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Forest Malley

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