Organizational And Administrative Ethics In Health Care

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Running head: ETHICS OF HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATION
ETHICS OF HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATION
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ETHICS OF HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATION1
Euthanasia is an act of any physician to end the life of an individual at the request and
consent of that individual (Keown, 2018). In physician-assisted suicide (PAS), the human being
has consumed the lethal substance which has been prescribed by the physician. The term
euthanasia and assisted suicide have been legalized in various states of the United States
(Emanuel, 2017). However, there are several safeguards and laws for the protection of abusing or
misusing these practices. There are two types of euthanasia, such as voluntary and involuntary.
In the involuntary euthanasia, the person who is dying has been made for requesting such
hastened death. In the voluntary euthanasia, the person seeks to his physician to end his life to
give relief from pain. Voluntary euthanasia may be passive as well as active. This active
voluntary euthanasia may be physician-assisted suicide (Emanuel et al., 2016). This paper will
analyze why such euthanasia should not be legalized in the territory of the US.
According to the Utilitarian ethical approach regarding the question of the legacy of the
euthanasia, the government should allow the euthanasia when specific conditions have fulfilled
during this activity. The scholars who have believed the utilitarian approach, do not follow any
divine order (Jordan, 2017). According to this approach, it is the only right thing that the greatest
pleasure for the highest quantity of people engaged in that matter. Tara Mapes in her article
‘Ethical theories on Human Euthanasia / Mercy killing ’, has argued where such a higher
number of family members have objected the euthanasia then the Utilitarian approach may thrust
back on the members of his family of asking the maximum happiness. The death of that family
member may produce happiness to the dead person more than living. However, the Kantian
ethical approach has opposed the Utilitarian approach that euthanasia is not the right thing for
doing and it may cause an acceptable behavior of killing (Vaughn, 2015). According to this
approach, euthanasia has excluded the command of the divine and also opposed to the universal