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refuse treatment is an instance of that right to your body as you are to suffer unbearable pain, others are just watchers. So its you, who decides that you want to suffer pain any more or just end by ending life.
You have right to decide what happens to your own body & to determine what you should do? Should you have right to choose to end your life & agony, or to get help in doing so?
Right to refuse treatment is not same as right to voluntary euthanasia even if both can be derived from the right to body, self determination right to refuse treatment is not right to die.
Administer therapy as long as patient responds .well & has the potential for a reasonably good quality of life but when all feasible therapies have been administered & patient shows signs of rapid delerioration. The continuation of therapy can cause more discomfort than the cancer, surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy relieving pain & condition stabilize & he could gain some good time.
Confucious treating body is gift from heaven & from one's parents must be buried whole & never cut.
Why not to be permitted Euthanasia? 1. Patient don't always receive adequate pain & symptom & their families adequate psychological & practical support. 2. Hope is essential part of hospice palliative care & stretches for beyond cure & survival. 3. desire to end suffering pain are generally associated with transient mood, disorder, depressive by illness or delirium. 4. Careful evaluation is necessary whenever a patient expresses suicide thought. 5. allowing nature to take its course & not intervening with heroic measures is good practice medically & ethically. but practivally it is not always right. 6. Many elderly people are concerned that legalized euthanasia would exert subtle & not so subtle pressure on them to get out of the way.
Euthansia even if voluntary is wrong & is against religious, moral, intellectual & spiritual ground. Hope is essential part of hospice care while there is life there is hope & where there is hope there is life. Hope can be defined as expectation achieving a goal. Passive Euthanasia withdrawal of life support, acting & doing nothing facilitates the persons death. Daniel Callham define Euthanasia means direct killing of a patient by a doctor by means fo lethal injection. This definition does not include voluntary euthanasia even if one's intention is precisely the same as one kills person to enable to escape from suffering that he is undergoing.
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