Good Death: Presentation on End of Life Options and Choices

This presentation provides a comprehensive overview of end-of-life options, addressing the complex issues surrounding the right to die and assisted suicide. It begins by introducing the concept of a 'good death' and the factors influencing end-of-life choices, including death with dignity, suicide, and natural death. The presentation explores arguments both supporting and opposing these options, focusing on the perspectives of terminally ill patients, healthcare resources, and ethical considerations. It delves into the legal aspects of end-of-life decisions, including physician-assisted suicide, and examines the role of palliative care and potential discrimination. The presentation concludes by highlighting the ongoing debate and the importance of considering the needs and rights of all stakeholders involved. The presentation also provides several references that support the arguments.

Good death
Solutions to end of life options

Introduction
• The aim of this presentation is to discuss the
essentiality of ending life.
• In this world very one of the person wants to live
longer but towards the end, some circumstances
force them to choose death.
• The right to die therefore has been accepted by
many of the developed nations so that the citizen
can decide the process of death.
• This presentation will discuss the argument on
supporting or defending End of life options.

End of life options
• Legislation of different countries have understood the
essentiality of good death.
• Therefore the people as have right to life can choose their
death options effectively.
• The end of life options are consisted of three main factors
• Death with dignity
• Suicide as an end of life options
• Natural death as an end of life options

End of life options
•The end of life options are mainly related to the
idea of death with dignity.
•The options only aim to end the physical
suffering of the people
• suicide though can be an option of ending life
but not supported by the government.

Supporting end of life options
•The nations only provide permissions to those
terminally ill elderly people who are in
vegetative state or completely disabled.
•This supports the view that the suffering
patients must be relived from their severely ill
or incurable situation.

Not starting treatment
•The terminally ill persons and those who are in
vegetative state may take up the hospital beds
replacing those who want to get better.
•Long term care for these patients are wastes of
medical resources.
•There is no cruelty to stop the treatment of the
person who has already expressed desire to die.

Not starting treatment
•Another set of scholars have seen this matter to
be questioning the treatment of the elderly
patients.
•To them treating the severely ill persons if
termed as waste of medical resources, then it is
completely unethical.

Against the end of life options
•Proper treatment can also be given in the care
homes or hospice and there is no need to
occupy the hospital beds if not needed.
•The organ donation agreement never speaks for
ending life intentionally to donate the organ to
the needed

Right to choose
•The legal system of the countries show respect
to the mercy killing.
•Therefore, there is no harm to allow a
terminally ill person to give the right to choose
life or death (LoPresti, Dement & Gold, 2016).

Suicide as an end of life options
•The end of life options
aloes relates to the right
of choice where it is the
choice of no the patent
•It is family members
who cannot bear the
cost of treatment
(Rhodes et al., 2015).

Against the right to choose
•Right to choose does not depend upon the
decision of the ill person but the pressure
of the relatives or others around him.
•The person who is suffering from dementia
or other severe painful disease will never
want to live.

Spread of diseases
•The patients when remains in the hospice or
Palliative (Comfort) Care, suffer from incurable
diseases.
•In some cases, the sick person may bear some
contagious agents within him
•The longer the patient is alive, it my risk the
health of the persons in surrounding

Against spread of diseases
•Hospital is a place for sick persons where the
contagious agencies are quite normal.
•It is not the fact that the patent with terminal
illness will be the only person to spread
diseases.
•The hospital organisations can easily mitigate
this issue.

Relation with law and ethics
•Legalized physician
assisted suicide is
handled by the
experienced doctor
where the experience of
the patient lead to the
decision of mercy killing
(Kerr et al., 2016)

Against medical ethics and law
•Most of he countries have
amendable laws.
•Law have the ability to adapt to
the multitude of issues and
specificity that exists in regards to
the health care.
•Law protects the rights of
patents, medical practitioner and
all other associates.

Discrimination in Palliative care
•The selection for end of life is also supported as
the palliative care organisations fail to address
proper care to these terminally ill persons.

Against discrimination in Palliative
care
•The issue of inequality in the palliative care is
not present in every hospitals of the world.
•Thus this point of discrimination is not valid to
support the end of life options (Heinl et al.,
2018)
•This issue of discrimination in Palliative care can
be fixed easily.

Solution
• These argument and counter argument regarding the
end of life options has gained popularity among the
developed and developing countries greatly.
• The increasing health issues among the baby boomers
have led the governments to think about the
possibilities of end of life as the demand of this type of
laws are gaining support.

Conclusion
•Therefore, it can be concluded that euthanasia
can be supported as this leads to the relief of
the patients from physical suffering.
•Despite there are several scholars and socialists
do not support this method of end of life
options thinking these to be unethical process.

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