Physician Assisted Suicide Case Study

During a game of chase with his sister Nikki, three-year-old Wes caught her for the first time. Without knowing what do to next, he punched her. His mother Joy’s angry and sudden reaction to him hitting his sister was confusing to him. While Wes hid in his room, he heard his father, Westley, trying to calm his mother down. Westley reminded Joy that Wes did not know hitting a woman was wrong or why Joy felt so strongly about it. Years later, Wes would finally understand why his mother reacted in that way. Bill’s recreational drug and alcohol use became an addiction. Even though they had a child together (Wes’s older sister, Nikki), Joy left Bill after a particularly violent encounter ended with her battered, but determined. Joy met Westley,
her second husband, when she was hired as a writing assistant for his radio show. They married, and had two children together, Wes (the author and Shani. Wes’s father coming to speak to him that day about punching his sister is one of the two memories he has of his father; the other is from the day his father died.
Westley had not been feeling well all day, and eventually had to be taken to the hospital. The doctors however did not know what to do for his symptoms and sent him home. Later that evening, he collapsed and ultimately, passed away from acute epiglottis. His death affected the entire family, and was a confusing time for young Wes.Wes had never met his father. His mother, Mary, was his sole provider.When Mary got pregnant at sixteen with her first son (Wes’s older half-brother, Tony), her mother Alma made her promise she would still go to school. However, Alma’s kidneys were failing and she passed away after an unsuccessful kidney transplant. Her father, Kenneth, was an alcoholic and did not take Alma’Unfortunately, Bernard was similar to Tony’s father and was an alcoholic without a steady job. Bernard only tried to be involved in Wes’s life on time, but he was extremely drunk so Mary did not allow it.s death well, so Alma’s parents moved in to help raise Mary and her seven siblings. she decided to take Wes to his Grandmother Mamie’s house so she could relax with some
friends. When they arrived, Wes ran inside and encountered a man he had never seen before. The man drunkenly sitting on his mother’s couch was Wes’s father. Mary introduced them for the first time.