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Assisted Suicide
Assisted Suicide
Assisted Suicide
GUILLERMO, JANINA
LARUMBE, JOVET
AMA, ARIELLE
JUAN, LIEZ
JAVIER, JUAN
MALABANAN,
ASSISTED SUICIDE:
Assisted suicide is a suicide committed
with the aid of another person, most of
time a physician. The term is often used
interchangeably with Physician-assisted
suicide (PAS), which involves a doctor
knowingly
and
intentionally
providing a person with knowledge or
means or both required to commit
suicide", including counseling about lethal
LETHAL DRUGS
1. SECONAL lethal at 100 grams and must be broken down
in powder to produce three tablespoons. Costs $125. It is
commonly mixed with water to create a bitter drink or
stirred into pudding or applesauce to hide the taste. Death
will be coming to half an hour, but if you are fat, death can
be delayed up to 48 hours.
2. NEMBUTAL comes in more convenient liquid form, cost
$1000.
ETHICAL ISSUES ON
ASSISTED SUICIDE:
ETHICAL ISSUES ON
ASSISTED SUICIDE:
Suicide is never an option.
Incompatible with the healing goals of
medicine.
A request for death needs psychological
care.
People may prejudice the fate of old,
crippled and weak.
CASE STUDY
CASE 1
Brittany Maynard, a 29 year old, was diagnosed with grade
2astrocytoma a form of brain cancer and had a partialcraniotomy and
a partialresectionof hertemporal lobe on January 1, 2014. The cancer
returned in April 2014, and her diagnosis was then elevated to grade 4
astrocytoma, also known asglioblastoma, with a prognosis of six
months to live. No treatment existed that would save her life, and
recommended care would, in effect, destroy the quality of the life she
had left. After much research, she came to the conclusion that Death
with Dignity was her best option. She believed she had the right to have
the
option
to
die
before
her
disease
could
kill
her.
Maynard ended her life on November 2, 2014 with drugs prescribed by
her doctor,
she outlived
her doctor's
2014 prognosis
she had
Statement:
Death
with April
Dignity
was thethat
best
six months to live.
CASE 2
Mrs. SR is a 42-year-old married woman who is the mother of an 8 yearold son. Mrs. SR suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS),
commonly known as Lou Gehrigs disease. Her life expectancy is
between 2 and 14 months, and her condition is rapidly deteriorating.
Very soon she will lose the ability to swallow, speak, walk, and move her
body without assistance. Thereafter she will be confined to her bed,
unable to breathe without a respirator and unable to eat unless a
gastrostomy tube is inserted into her stomach. Mrs. SR understands her
condition. She is aware of the trajectory of her illness and the
inevitability of her death. Her wish is to control the circumstances,
timing, and manner in which she dies. Mrs. SR does not wish to die so
long as she still has the capacity to enjoy life. However, by the time she
no longer is able to enjoy life, she will be physically unable to terminate
her life without assistance. Mrs. SR wants a qualified medical
CASE 2
Statement: Should the medical practitioner be
allowed to facilitate Ms. SRs wish to
determine the time of her death?
CASE 3
CASE 3
Statement: Being diagnosed with a terminal
disease is justifiable to consider assisted suicide
as the solution to eliminate pain and waiting.