Death With Dignity Case Study

Should terminally ill patients be allowed to die with dignity? As a medical assistant you take care of every kind of patient. The young, middle aged, the elderly, the hurt, the sick, and the ones who can’t take care of themselves. During our clinical one of the rotations was an assisted living home. It wasn’t like most “nursing homes”. You didn’t walk in and immediately sense a dark or bad vibe. I had a sense of being needed by the residents. They needed me to take care of them because their families didn’t have the time or space to care for them like they wished. A terminally ill patient is someone who has a disease or illness that cannot be treated and is expected to pass away within a period of time. An example of a terminal
However in some cases these people suffered by inhumane treatments. In my first case, Brittany Maynard was twenty-nine years old. She had been diagnosed with an incurable brain cancer for the second time. There were no treatments that could help save her life. She wanted the right to die how she wanted to. Brittany said, “Who has the right to tell me that I don’t deserve this choice?” She researched for a while and finally moved to Oregon to take full advantage of the “Death with Dignity” law. The second case is Sandy Bem. She was sixty-five years old when she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. She said, “I want to live for as long as I continue to be
She answered questions by blinking once for no and twice for yes. . In videos she even blinked twice for yes, which she wanted to go home with her parents. Her loving parents wanted to bring her home and take care of her, but the judge denied their request. And with a snap of her husband’s fingers, he wanted her to be killed. This case was taken to court and Circuit Court Judge George W. Greer sentenced Terri’s feeding tube to be pulled. How is starving and dehydrating someone “humane”? This is inhumane on so many levels. This is just many of the examples of why terminally ill patients should be allowed to choose whether they want to live in pain or die with dignity. Why do we grant the decision to take your life or keep you here to suffer from someone else? Why isn’t this already legal in all states? Our politicians always want to look forward and do better for everyone. Nevertheless we don’t need to forget about our sick loved ones and their