Cruzan v. Missouri Department of Health What is the value of a life? Do family members always have the patients’ best interest in mind when making medical decisions? Who should ultimately make the decision of life or death for patients that will never leave a permanent vegetative state? Lester and Joyce Cruzan faced an issue no parent ever wants to face after their daughter, Nancy was in a horrific car accident that left her in a persistent vegetative state.
But we have doctors and technology that is advanced that we can live through it, Mattie and the people of her time did
As he got older he tended to act on emotions. For example, Rufus wants her to stay and hurts people without thinking first. Their relationship is officially and finally severed when Dana kills him. This needed to be done because Rufus wanted something Dana was never going to give him, which was being physically involved with
Dana Plato (a former actress) was found dead due to her overdosing on painkillers,it's not uncommon for people to die from an “ accidental overdose”. This is similar to a passage from the book Farenheit 451 when Mildred is found “uncovered and cold” with an empty bottle of sleeping pills spinning on the floor. These two events are similar because both of them mention not only the use of drugs but also how both of the women abused them. The women used these drugs to escape their unhappy life. They wanted an escape so they resorted to drugs that were meant to help them but hurt them instead .
Clyde Haberman’s article From Private Ordeal to National Fight: The Case of Terri Schiavo emphasizes social responsibility through a woman’s diagnosis of irreversible brain damage. Terri Schiavo suffered many years because the people around her were still emotionally attached to the memories they had of her. “For 15 years, Terri Schiavo was effectively a slave- slave to an atrophied brain that made her a prisoner in her own body…” (1). Terri Schiavo’s quality of life deteriorated as she spent her last years attached to a feeding tube. Schiavo’s parents and husband had total compelling arguments about what was best for Schiavo because both perspectives saw her differently.
She is only transported back through time when his life is in danger. Since Dana is a Black woman and Kevin, her husband is White, she would have to adjust to things that perhaps she wouldn't have thought about. In the past it was a terribly, unusual thing. Dana says, “You, uh ... don’t have any relatives or anything who’ll give you a hard time about me, do you?”
The argument between Arius and Athanasius was about Jesus Christ and how he was related to God. Arius believed that God’s son was made out of nothing while Athanasius believed that God’s son was “begotten” by his Father. Arius and Athanasius disagreed on many other beliefs. Arius also believed that Jesus Christ was a lesser God while Athanasius believed that Jesus Christ was human and equal to God himself with the other Holy Trinities. During this time, Constantine held the first Council of Nicaea to settle the controversy.
She admitted to using Marijuana, Cocaine, and Ecstasy. Sometimes she would abuse the use of sleeping pills by taking more than what is recommended. Mental
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome is known as an invisible illness. It is invisible because a person can physically appear fine, but they suffer chronic pain and frequent dislocations due to a defect in collagen production. Without knee braces and other assistive devices, I look normal. Quickly after my diagnosis, I was confined to a wheelchair for a period.
Dana tells Sarah how Alice committed suicide. Sarah replies:. “Oh Lord Poor child. He finally killed her... Even if he didn’t put the rope on her, he drove her to it.
Hershey feels that there is evidence in society that the majority feel that people with disabilities need to be “fixed” or “cured”. Hershey also feels that the majority feel that the problem should just “go away”. The passage that best supports this, she goes on to say “one of my major objections to the telethon is the way it reinforces that attitude.” Hershey goes on to explain that some people with disabilities keep quiet instead of demanding their basic human needs to be met. I was struck by Hershey stating “we’ll never recognize them if we stay focused on curing individuals of disability, rather than making changes to accommodate disability into our culture.”
In Frank Furedi’s reading, “Our Unhealthy Obsession with Sickness”, he concludes that the health care crisis which we are going through will not change nor get better. To some extent I agree with Mr. Furedi’s writing. He discusses how in recent times, people in society are normalizing having an illness and are willingly open to talking about them (471). Furedi also mentioned how people now embrace having an illness, rather than noticing their worth before they were sick. I too have noticed that it is becoming increasingly acceptable to the extent that people want something to be wrong with them, which I find extremely odd.
She died with a lethal dose of barbiturates. So this is also one argument that if
Brittany Maynard has been fed up with the government making medical decisions for her and patients in the same situation as her. This is what was on her mind “How dare the government make decisions for terminally ill people like me. Unfortunately, California law prevented me from getting the end of life option I deserved. No one should have to leave their home and community for a gentle death.” She has set things right for terminally ill patients in California.
Imagine being unable to walk, unable to speak, unable to move and unable to breathe. Imagine being in a state of complete paralysis where the only thing that keeps on functioning is your brain, and you live chained to a machine doctors call life support. Imagine being told that you have an incurable disease that will inevitably kill you. Maybe next month. Maybe next year.
