Ethical Issues Of Euthanasia And Physician Assisted Suicide

The practice of ethics comes with ethical challenges and just as ethical challenges come in many forms, solving these ethical challenges may take many forms as well. Decisions may be reached individually or as a group, or may be the result of consensus building or negotiation. These decisions do not stand alone, since decisions made in one aspect of an ethical situation may affect other aspects of the same problem. A situation that requires a person or organization to choose between alternatives that must be evaluated as right (ethical) or wrong (unethical) often occurs in the healthcare organization. Thus, some ethical issues that arise are; end-of-life issues, physician assisted suicide and euthanasia and right to life and abortion.
Speaking

This drug generally results in unconsciousness within five minutes and death within thirty minutes and the termination of a very sick person's life in order to relieve them of their suffering is described as euthanasia. In most cases euthanasia is carried out because the person who dies asks for it, but there are cases called euthanasia where a person can't make such a request. Martin Levin explains that the decision on how and when to die is one of ‘the most intimate and personal choices a person may make in a lifetime,’ a choice ‘central to personal dignity and autonomy’. A competent terminally ill adult, having lived nearly the full measure of his life, has a strong liberty interest in choosing a dignified and humane death rather than being reduced at the end of his existence to a childlike state of helplessness, diapered, sedated, and incontinent (levinlaw, 2001). How a person dies not only determines the nature of the final period of his existence, but in many cases the enduring memories held by those who love him. Some terminally ill patients are in intractable pain and/or experience an intolerably poor quality of life and as such, they would prefer to end their life rather than continue until their body finally gives up. But based on the Patient’s Bill of Rights,

Some think that abortion is right when the mother's life is at risk. Others think that there is a range of circumstances in which abortion is morally acceptable. Is a person’s autonomy more important than a physician’s obligation to save lives? At various times some of the following have been allowed in some societies: abortion for the sake of the mother's health including her mental health; abortion where a pregnancy is the result of a crime; such as crimes like rape, incest, or child abuse; abortion where the child of the pregnancy would have an ' unacceptable quality of life' such as cases where the child would have; serious physical handicaps; serious genetic problems; serious mental defects. Most opponents of abortion agree that abortion for the sake of the mother's health can be morally acceptable if there is a real risk of serious damage to the mother. In terms of abortion on demand, a woman's desire or choice to be "un-pregnant” is considered by advocates to be her legal right, with no justification required. The utilitarian theory does not mean that a woman is selfish on her decision of abortion (ukssays.com, 2015). Example; a woman decides to have an abortion because she is not prepared to have a child, she has no support: financial or emotional and she is still in school. The woman decides that it would be in her best interest to have abortion at this point. This woman can remain in