DIGNITY IN

DEATH
AND DYING
REPORTER: BASTASA, CYRVINCE M.
BSN2-B
 DYING WITH DIGNITY

-Movement that promotes the ability to meet death on your own

terms.

Suicide- Assisted suicide, which is also called physician assisted

suicide, is when a doctor gives a person the means to commit suicide
when requested for.

Euthanasia- A doctor is allowed by law to end a person’s life by a

painless means, as long as the patient and their family agree.
 EUTHANASIA
Voluntary- When euthanasia is conducted with consent. Voluntary
euthanasia is currently legal in other country, like Switzerland, Washington,
USA.

Non-Voluntary- When euthanasia is conducted on a person who is unable

to consent due to their current health condition. In this scenario the
decision is made by another appropriate person, on behalf of the patient,
based on their quality of life and suffering.
 EUTHANASIA

Involuntary- When euthanasia is performed on a person who

would be able to provide informed consent, but does not,
either because they do not want to die or because they were
not asked. This is called murder as it’s often against the
patient’s will.
 INVIOLABILITY OF
HUMAN
LIFE
- This concept of inviolability is an important tie between the ethics of religion and the ethics
of law, as each seeks justification for its principles as based on both purify and natural
concept, as well as in universality of application.
- -In religion and ethics, the inviolability or sanctity of life is a principle of implied
protection regarding aspects of sentient life that are said to be holy, sacred, or otherwise
of such
- that they are not to be violated.
 DYSTHANSIA
- Dysthansia is a term generally used when a person cannot survive
sometimes for some sort of ulterior. seen to be kept alive artificially in a
condition where, otherwise, they cannot survive, sometimes for same sort of
ulterior.

ORTHOTHANASIA
- A normal or natural manner of death and dying. Sometimes used to denote
the deliberate stopping of artificial or heroic means of maintaining life
passive euthanasia.
 ADMINISTRATING OF DRUGS
TO THE DYING
- In medicine, specifically in end-of-life care, palliative sedation is the practice of
relieving distress in a terminally illness person in the last hours or days of a dying
patient’s life, usually by means of a continuous intravenous or subcutaneous infusion
of a sedative drug, or by means of a specialized catheter designed to provide
comfortable and discreet administration of ongoing medications via the rectal route.
- Palliative sedation is an option of last resort for patients whose symptoms cannot be
controlled by any other means.
- It is not a form of euthanasia, as the goal of palliative sedation is to control
symptoms, rather than to shorten the patients life.
 ADVANCE DIRECTIVES
- Are legal documents that allow you to spell out your decisions about
end-of-life care ahead of time. They give you a way to tell your wishes
to family, friends, and health care professionals and to avoid confusion.
 THE LIVING WILL
- Is a legal document used to state certain future health care
decisions only when a person becomes enable to make the
decisions and choices on their own.
WHEN DOES END OF LIFE CARE BEGIN?

Notes

- Have a advance incurable illness, such as

cancer, dementia or motor neurone disease
are generally frail and have co-existing
conditions that mean they are expected to
die within 12 months.
- Have existing conditions if they are at risk of
dying from a sudden crisis in their condition.
- Have a life-threatening acute condition
caused by a sudden catastrophic event,
such as an accident or stroke.
 NURSING RULES AND
RESPONSIBILITY
• Treat people compassionately
• Listen to people.
• Communicate clearly and sensitively.
• Identify and meet the communication needs
of each individual.
• Acknowledge pain and distress and take
action.
• Recognize when someone may be entering
the last few days and hours of life.
• Involve people in decisions about their care
and respect their wishes.
• Keep the person who is reaching the end of
their life and those important to them up to
date with any changes in condition.
• Document a summary of conversations and
decisions.
• Seek further advice if needed.
• Look after yourself and your colleagues
and seek support if you need it.
• Learning from complaints.
• Care of the person.
The process of making ethical
decisions requires:
• Commitment- The desire to do right thing
regardless of the cost.
• Consciousness- The awareness to act
consistently and apply moral convictions to
daily behavior.
• Competency- The ability to collect and
evaluate information, develop alternatives,
and foresee potential consequences and
risks.
THANK YOU.