Assisted Suicide Vs Passive Euthanasia

Euthanasia means “a good death” and “dying well”. A good death means dying with peaceful, painless, lucid and loved ones gathering around. Euthanasia defined as the termination of ill people’s life aim to reduce suffering from incurable and painful disease. Euthanasia classify into two major types, included passive and active. In passive euthanasia ill people dead by withholding of common treatment, such as antibiotics.

The assisted suicide refers to euthanasia for the patient who is suffering due to an incurable illness with help from the doctors to end patients suffering by taking of lethal drugs. Colombia, Switzerland, and Germany are some of the legal assisted suicide countries. Physicians cannot be prosecuted for prescribing medications to hasten death (“Physician-Assisted Suicide,” n.d.). Some individuals argue that assisted suicide could be better to become legal to endless patients suffering. However, it is argued that euthanized help patient to comfortable from doom.

As stated previously, there are two types of euthanasia which is used mostly by the whole world which is active euthanasia and passive euthanasia that. Active euthanasia is takes specific steps and end a person’s life by forces to kill a person with administration of drugs. However, passive euthanasia is withdrawal of life-sustaining medical treatment that is being withhold by the doctor. For example, disconnecting the feeding tube of the patients, switching off the life-support machines and using large doses of drug such as morphine on patient to control the pain that may cause fatal on respiratory systems. The ideas behind this moral distinction is that in passive euthanasia the doctors are not actively killing anyone but they are just not saving the patients.

What would you do if you were dying from the great pain? It is not surprising that there are many people in the world have to encounter with the end of life every single day. Some people died young and some passed away when they reach their aged. But because of the terminal illness, someone decided to cut the last breath of their life with dignity and called it as the euthanasia. It turned out that it has two sides about the point of view towards the euthanasia issue in a positive and negative ways.

Everyday I work with patients in the hospital from all types of different backgrounds; as a health care provider, constantly seeing patients who feel like there’s no hope in their life, is devastating. Euthanasia should be legal in the United States to eliminate patients from undergoing suffering from an incurable or terminal disease. Healthcare is currently in transition of allowing more states to be able to have euthanasia performed on them because patients are no longer willing to suffer from these untreatable conditions. More people need to be informed on this procedure, the risks of it, and how to determine if someone is able to get this approved by a doctor or physician. This procedure involves the deliberate taking of a person 's life, assisted by a physician who will prescribe this patient to do so themselves.

Introduction With aging and disease comes many complications; the body is pushed to mental, physical, and emotional extremes. Many people experience pain and suffering with these changes and struggle to cope with it. Since the process of aging and the course of disease is a natural process it becomes a challenge to decide when enough is enough. Is palliative care enough or should assisted suicide be considered? Whether it be from the natural aging progression or onset of disease, the process of dying is inevitable and brings a variety of complications; therefore assisted suicide should be of consideration.

Alcohol withdrawal changes patient’s state of mind and can cause verbal or physical abuse. Therefore, a knowledgeable nurse will implement skills in promoting patient and individual safety. Strategies such as sedation, restraints, sitter, or security at the bedside can be implemented before the escalation of work place violence occurs. Furthermore, a nurses attitude towards this patient matters in order to de-escalate anger. An angry or confused patient must be a handle wisely with proper nursing intervention.

Euthanasia is the act of intentional ending of the life of someone that having terminally ill to relieve suffering and pain. It also called mercy killing .The process is generally an injection given from a medical professional. Generally, euthanasia is only allowed in cases where a patient is going through unbearable suffering and is never going to recover or in an irreversible coma. The aim of euthanasia is to relieve the patients from suffering and counting down to death and it provide the patient a death of dignity Euthanasia is illegal in most countries. 2.0 Pros if euthanasia is legalize 2.1 Right to die The right of a terminally ill person to relieve from excruciating pain and embrace a dignified death which they have a protected

Killing interferes with the killed soul’s process towards liberation. Additionally, it is believed that it brings bad karma to the killer because there is a principle of nonviolence in Hinduism. Therefore, a conscious death is the ideal way for a Hindu to end his life which is a condition that is not provided when Euthanasia is performed. However, there is a concept called “Prayopavesa” in Hinduism which means “fasting to death” Hindu law lays down conditions for “Prayopavesa” when “death appears imminent or the condition is so bad that life’s pleasures are nil” (Subramuniyaswami). In India, passive Euthanasia is legalized.

This can be seen a lot in hospital settings where it is either nurse on nurse or even nurse against doctors. Physicians can at times regard other members of the health care team as less competent or perhaps even incompetent, weak, and vulnerable, seeing themselves as champions for their patients because they have been to medical school (Littlejohn). Many nurses have accepted that workplace violence is a part of everyday work life for them. Meaning instead of teamwork the older nurses look down on the new nurses and instead of teamwork and helping each other out, they let them fail and fall on their face. Workplace violence can cause harm that you might not even think of on a nurse in dealing with a situation that escalates very quickly leaving them afraid to go to work and leaving emotional and maybe even physical marks.