An individual has liberty, which includes the right of owning his life. He is the possessor of his life. ... In a typical situation, a person has some terrible, deadly disease. ... If a person decides that he wants to die, and someone does not think that this is a good decision, what right does the opposing person have to tell him that he cannot do this? ... If the person is no longer able to relate in any way to his relatives and friends, he might not want to live a day further. ...

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That is why chronological age, the number of years a person has lived, is an inaccurate basis of functional age. Functional age is a term for a person's age that is determined as a measure of their functional capabilities that have been indexed to a standard. ... Although generally, loss outweighs improvement and maintenance as people approach the end of life. ... It involves coming to terms with one's life.Despair is the result of the negative resolution or lack of resolution of the final life crisis. This negative resolution manifests itself as a fear of death, a sense that life i...

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Because of a greater focus on overall health, preventative care, and developments in medicine, human life expectancy today is higher than it ever was in history. ... Medications, daily routines, schedules, and so on need to be taken into account and maintained for the health and well-being of the elderly person. ... In this regard, Connidis (p.5) points out that the relationship of elderly persons to the rest of society in the past is often misconceived, especially in Western society. ... Indeed, the author states that, in the past, a shorter life expectancy made three-generation families rare...

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In California, the End of Life Option Act (ELOA), which would allow an individual who meets certain requirements, and is diagnosed with a terminal illness by their attending physician, to choose to request a prescription medication intended to prematurely end their life, should be passed (California, State Department of Public Health). ... Moving can be a costly, time consuming, and disruptive part of life. ... In addition to all the stress of uprooting the family, the person then has to obtain citizenship in the state in which they move to before they can receive treatment. ... Treatments suc...

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Euthanasia, in its many forms, involves the sacred essence of a human life which creates mixed views if it is an allowable action from many diverse points of view, however ultimately it is that person's life and that person's decision. ... Finally, there is passive euthanasia which is allowing a person to die of natural causes and to not do anything to attempt to save that person's life. Two examples of passive euthanasia are not disconnecting a person's life support and also not resuscitating a person once their heart stops and they are dead. ... Among the reasons for ...

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However, whatever name they give it the action is one, which is, ending the life of a person who is still alive. ... Voluntary euthanasia: ending the life of a person in reply to an explicit request from the person. ... The reasons that push people to end their life vary, one of the most common reasons is to end the pain of the person(physical or psychological), but who said that the only way to releif the pain is death? ... This is not the smartest of reasons to make a person end his life because naturally the family would rather have the person back with them well than having money. ... So ...

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My view regarding physician assisted suicide is that as long as a person is deemed competent, he or she should be allowed to determine if they would like to end their life. ... Society fears that when a person makes the decision to end their life it could be a pressured decision. ... Society's interest in life preservation should be lessened when a person is terminally ill and has strong desire to end their life. ... A person should have the right to decide whether or not they want to preserve their life. ... A do not resuscitate order is just another way that a person is being assisted w...

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According to Kant, a person who takes the liberty to take control of their own or another individuals life acts in violation to the moral law, Kant argued that euthanasia is an unnatural act. ... In this case of euthanasia if a person desired to give up on life they would be disrespecting themselves also the person that would supposedly help them to die. ... A person can make a choose to excessively drink , smoke or eat unhealthily and reduce their life expectancy, if this is permissible in the UK state then why can an individual not take a decision regarding their own life where they can die...

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The debate of the legalization of Euthanasia hangs heavily on the ethics of the passing of life. ... Is there a line between the ability to live a good life and living a painful and captive life due to an illness? ... Persons with terminal illnesses have horrific futures ahead of them when treatment is not available. ... But I can help the dying person get ready-and in this way, contribute to a death that is decent. ... This includes cases where: the person is in a coma, the person is too young (e.g. a very young baby), the person is senile, the person is mentally retarded to a very severe ext...

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Religious people are against this process because they believe life is a gift from God and that each individual is a gift and only God can start a life and only God should be allowed to end it. ... If a person is terminally ill, and there is nothing anyone can do for them, why should they have to suffer? ... People say that dying by euthanasia is to die with dignity, instead of living an artificial life on respirators and other life support machines. I believe that if the judicial system of the United States can choose to sentence a criminal to death, why in this cases a person can't choo...

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The question of whether or not any one person has the capacity, legally or otherwise to take one's own life is one of the most debated and fundamentally thought provoking in society's history. Life, death and all the events and actors they encompass are not easily placed within the parameters of a legal society such as the United States. ... Is physician-assisted suicide a legal and moral act in which any given person, in any specific situation should be able to partake in? ... The Supreme Court ruled in the Cruzan case that any competent individual could refuse life saving m...

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When a person is diagnosed with an illness they will soon after be faced with many options and it will be necessary for them to make decisions concerning how they wish to spend the rest of their life. ... Sometimes you might find a person that wishes not to take any medication, rather just let nature have its way. ... The common Judeo-Christian opinion is that suicide is a sin, for a person committing such an act is taking their life out of God's hands and putting it into their own, and that any man that helps another kill himself is thought to be guilty of murder. However the opposing, n...

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Disengagement Theory Book Def: Elaine Cumming and William Henry introduced this theory to explain the impact of aging during one's life course. My Def: Turning away from the social norms of everyday life to embrace old age, terminal illness, and possibly death. ... My Def: Elderly persons who stay socially and physically active in the mainstream of society will be better off than withdrawing from society. ... This theory is better for elderly persons because it doesn't put up a barrier between generations socially or in the workplace. ... I feel that the "withdraw"...

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Philosophical Inquiry Socrates took his life while in jail for a crime that he did not commit because he felt it was the right thing to do. ... Socrates would ask a question to a person, and he would appear to get excited when the person thought they knew the answer, but when the person would state the answer Socrates would point out the flaws in the person's arguments and make the person appear to be ignorant so therefore they would try to find the real answer out, but Socrates believed that he was unable himself to reveal the answer to his "disciple" because he felt t...

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This poison would put the person to sleep, into a coma. ... When a person is terminally ill, his family might suggest the possibility of euthanasia, when in fact, the person that is ill can only request it. ... Formerly, a person was considered dead when breathing and heart action ceased. ... In the United States, euthanasia is a serious crime, punishable by life imprisonment. ... Kevorkian became widely know in 1990 when a woman in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease used his machine to end her life. ...

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As a last resort, some of those sufferers might seek other care, the physician assisted suicide, to end life. ... The right to die is defined as the putative right for a person to decide not to be kept alive by heroic means and die with dignity [Def14]. ... The exercise of this right is central to a person's autonomy. ... The right to die should be a fundamental freedom of each person. ... A compassionate individual must conclude that terminally ill people should be given the right to assisted suicide in order to end their suffering and preserve the individual right of the person to dete...

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The author formulated most arguable incidents in the convention of our comprehension towards a normal person, which we usually called "common sense", gave us a clear, direct and specific description about how Emily handled her tragedy in her traditional, somewhat stubborn life and how her world deviated from a normal one. Based on my study and my findings I came to the realization that Emily's death is a tragedy of her own life. ... When a person who is facing a dire and deprived situation, it is sometimes understandable that the very one person might result to extreme to handled one&#x...

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The purpose of this chapter is to help people and you students to realize that the reality of death can make act into trying to enjoy life; making the most of it, be productive, and contribute to life. ... Furthermore, we have to live life to its fullest, as if it were our last. ... If there is no brain wave activity after an initial measurement and a second measurement after 24 hours, the person is said to have undergone brain death. 3. ... A person is not legally dead until a physician, coroner, or health department officer has signed a death certificate. ... Direct [active] eut...

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Non-voluntary euthanasia would occur if a person were unable to express their desires, for example if someone were in a coma. ... It is seen as a part of our personal freedom and it is unreasonable for us to deny the person that right. ... If it is the person's own life, shouldn't they have the right to decide when, and by what means they wish to end it? The problem with this lies in the fact that the death of this person, in almost all cases, will affect many more people than the person dying. ... But if euthanasia were made illegal, would the relationship between doctors and th...

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Augustus no longer is able to be a superhuman, he can't even provide for his own life, let alone inspire ours, his dignity is stripped and as readers we can understand how sucky seriously ill people are. ... An Imperial Affliction is not only Haze's favourite novel, but it is a symbol of her own life. ... And this commitment to charity reminds the cancer person of the essential goodness of humanity and makes him/ her feel loved and encouraged because s/ he will leave a cancer-curing legacy. But in AIA, Anna decides that being a person with cancer who starts a cancer charity is a bi...

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The ending of "The Things They Carried" finishes off the duration of the novel, with stories that concentrate on death along with the role of stories and memories in managing the burden of death on a person's conscience. ... After Linda's death, O'Brien describes himself in fifth grade imagining Linda as still with him and using his imagination to simultaneously bring her back to life, and to cope with his loss. ... O'Brien adds new details to give people that died in his stories new life that he could experience as he was creating it, almost as if the person that had died ...

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Is there such a thing as life after death? ... Scientists speculate that even the people who lived during the New Stone Age (10,000B.C.E - 5,000B.C.E) believed that once a person died, their journey had not yet concluded. 250 million Hindus and 150 million Buddhists are brought up with an understanding of re-birth, which briefly means that our spirit is continuous and requires more than one physical life to attain to a state of purity . ... When subjects planned their next life, they did so with a sense of moral obligation. ... Another interesting discovery that resulted as the result of exte...

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It is an act that mercifully ends the life of a hopelessly suffering patient. ... Physician-assisted death involves help from a medically qualified practitioner in fulfilling the wishes of a competent, terminally ill patient to end his/her own life. ... Supporters of the right to assisted suicide, most commonly people with terminal illnesses and their advocates, believe that the dying person should have the right to decide how and when to end his or her own life. ... A person, who has deteriorated to the point of misery and can no longer function; who has no longer found meaning in his life,...

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The concern has risen among health professionals about the possible negative affects and potential danger brought on by the death of a life long partner. ... Normal bodily functions and life patterns are disrupted leaving the woman vulnerable to infections and accidents. ... During the acceptance stage, adjustment to new life takes place. ... An elderly woman is especially at risk because her partner could have been the only person left to share the remaining life with and now he is gone too. ... Most important is for us to be able to understand the person and the grieving process they are...

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Families sometimes erroneously believe that each member's grief will be similar to the others' because they have experienced the death of a specific person within their family system. ... These differing grieving patterns are also affected by the degree to which family members are willing or able to anticipate and prepare for loss, as well as such factors as the gender, age, and maturity or developmental level of each person within the "system." ... Related Roles of Healthcare Professionals Clinicians working in the end-of-life care arena play a number of roles in supporting patients...

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