The goal of palliative care is to achieve the best quality of life for patients and families" (75). ... Terminally ill patients also suffer from breathing difficulties, nausea, vomiting, malaise, confusion, nightmares, sleeping disorders, and other problems that are not well understood (57). ... Tube feeding is common for patients who are unable to eat or drink on their own. Choice in Dying, a national organization dedicated to serving the needs of the dying, maintains that "it is acceptable to withdraw nutritional life support from the terminally ill. ... For patients at the end of their li...

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One important way that creativity can positively affect lives is by helping treat mental illness in art therapy, by affecting the brain (neuroscience) in creative process and how that would be beneficial to patients having mental disorder, by providing patients an emotional outlet and by promoting self-esteem thus aid patients going back to society. ... What is 'wrong' with being mentally ill? ... So it is not an option for them for being mentally ill, no one wants to be ill after all. Perhaps the biggest misunderstanding of them all is the idea that being mentally ill is a matter ...

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Many believe that the first and foremost question is the age of the terminally ill, a minor is not mature enough to make a decision as significant as this one. ... The doctor obviously cannot prohibit the patient from killing himself or herself but they can attempt to dissuade the patient. Rational suicide cannot be committed without the patient having made a Will. ... Some cases of assisted suicide go undetected by the doctors of the patients. ... The United Church of Christ (Congregational), the Unitarian Church, and the Methodist Church on the West Coast of America all officiall...

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(Brandt 123) In other words these patients have a rational reason to commit suicide, yet their mind is not capable of making that decision. So if terminally ill patients are the only ones who have a good rational reason to commit suicide, then where does that leave everyone else? ... The organization advocated active euthanasia, or aiding the death of a hopelessly ill individual."... Assisted suicide is where a patient that is terminally ill comes to a physician or even a friend or family member at times and asks them to help end their life. ... According to Leslie Pickering Francis, "It occ...

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There are no straightforward steps a psychologist can use to determine whether or not a patient is of sound mind when presenting a case in the Queensland Legal System under the code. ... It is not only the Queensland Criminal Code act which falls short on guiding principle regarding mental illness and mentally ill offenders. ... The Act contains provisions for assessment, treatment, and patient rights. It provides mentally ill offenders help to understand criminal responsibility where the person has a mental illness or intellectual disability. ... The Mental Health Act provides for and protect...

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From a clinical treatment standpoint, up to 80% of people seeking treatment for BPD are women, but as a patient community, the figure is far less extreme. ... Individuals suffering its ill effects have poorly developed notion of the self, often linked with excessive self-criticism, and chronic feelings of emptiness and dissociation under states of stress Furthermore, this self-identity impairment usually contributes to a general lack of self-direction. ...

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It is of interest to note that cultural differences between the patient and care provider can create problems that can lessen the effectiveness of treatment due to many reasons including ignorance and misunderstandings. ...

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