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62 year old hospital administrator had a lymphoma which didn't respond well to chemotherapy, disease spread, one day he said to stop taking chemotherapy and asked oncologist to kill him. He was in much agony. He was exhausted & depressed & asked for lethal drug to get out of misery. He cant kill himself. Suffering, expenses, & burden on his family & medical care he felt ashamed & embarrassed by his dependence. He & oncologist began to discuss comfort rather than cure patient began to feel more optimistic as his fever erythema & pruritus. He fell stronger, slept better eat solid food for one month & readmitted with pneumonia deteriorated rapidly & died latter. Psychological well being is impossible if patient is trouble by severe physical symptoms.
2nd case An old man was dying from disseminated being cancer his symptoms were well controlled & he asked he could go home & die. His four children refused to take care in name of humanity there house was empty & nothing was saved, Everything was lost in cost of treatment Persistent Vegetative State (PVS) condition of drastically impaired consciousness patient has periods of wakefulness & sleep in coma patients are in sleep like condition.
African perspective an older patients life is valued over that of younger patient & where both can't be saved older must be saved is (investment). In west favour young Equality also is highly valued is true in form of lottery such as 1st come 1st served basis as values need or equality ahead of usefulness.
When gender race & class debate-one is male white wealthy & one is female poor or both female & not white who will obtain scarce resource?
Active & passive Euthanasia is thought to be crucial medical ethics withhold treatment & allow patient die is never permissible. The intentional termination of the life of one human being by another-mercy killing - is contrary to that for which the medical profession stands & is contrary to policy of American Medical Association. A patient who is dying of incurable cancer of the throat is in terrible pain which can no longer be satisfactorily alleviated is certain to die within few days even if present treatment is continued he does not want to go on living for those days since the pain is unbearable so he ask doctor for an end to it & family joins in request suppose doctor argues to withhold treatment as conventional says he may justify in doing so as that patient is in terrible agency & since he is going to die in any way it would be wrong to prolong his suffering needlessly.
Withholding treatment take patient longer to die & he may suffer more, than if direct action were taken & lethal injection given. Once the
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