Thus, in what became a groundbreaking law, in 1976, California became the first state to allow terminally ill patients to die when such a patient chooses to withdraw further treatment. ... But for those patients who are suffering and are seeking hospice care and pain management medicine, those patients feel that it is not working out for them, they feel at misery and that's when the patient knows when it is their time to "go". ... Competent, terminally ill patients should have the right to avoid pain and embrace a timely and dignified death. ... With rule's that protect a ...

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Should a mentally competent, terminally ill person be allowed to choose the time and method of his or her death? ... Currently, physician-assisted suicide is legal only in Oregon; however this has not prevented terminally ill patients residing out-of-state from seeking physician assistance in ending their lives. Terminally ill patients who have been unable to receive the assistance they so desperately seek often resort to drastic measures such as overdosing on prescription medicine, or creating their own suicide machines, which often end in botched attempts and leaves the patient in a worse st...

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The term "incompetent patient" refers to a condition in which a patient lacks the capacity to make substantially autonomous decisions about his or her own care (Hoefler 36). ... If an individual is terminally ill, his emotional health and rationality are questionable. ... However, nearly all states recognize the patient's rights to refuse all treatments, Fourteenth Amendment "prohibits others from invading one's body against one's will," including food and fluids, if they are terminally ill and become permanently incompetent (Hoefler 170). Physicians are legally obligated to fo...

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So, then, why do people still permit this to go on, why has it become an option for terminally ill patients? ... The second is where the patient is unconscious and unable to decide what to do with their own life. ... Another key reason is that the patients are clinically depressed. In a study done, of the 24 percent of terminally ill patients who requested assisted suicide, all had also been diagnosed with clinical depression (Euthanasia.com). ...

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The may feel very hopeless which can often lead to suicide. (4) Anxiety - Patients may experience the psychological manifestations of anxiety. Sixty to seventy percent of depressed patients report feelings of anxiety and sometimes extreme worrying... Therefore, diagnosis should not lie only in the physician's hands but be associated with parents, teachers and anyone who interacts with the patient on a daily basis. ... Oster & Montgomery (1996) stated that "when parents are struggling over marital or career problems, or are ill themselves, teens may feel the tension and try to distract the...

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Over the course of an officer's career they may become accustomed to dealing with the horrors of tragic events, deaths, and facing societies ills that the strong culture of police (masculine/tough image) can potentially have a reverse or worsening effect on the shocking police suicide statistics presented above. ...

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