2007-01-17 10:59:57 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
a patient should be able to refuse life-saving treatment. it's the doctor's job to provide the treatment but the patient's personal choice to accept it or not.
2007-01-17 11:07:45 · answer #1 · answered by Emily 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Patients have that right. Doctors have no business helping in the decision. The doctor can lay out the odds and options, and needn't prescribe futile care, but having doctors suggest or assist in suicide alters the doctor's role in a way that shouldn't be tolerated. The God complex is too easy to slip into without having society foist it upon the profession.
2007-01-18 18:22:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a thing called an "Advanced Directive" where a person can decide whether he / she wants to be on life support should the day come that that is an option. Are you suggesting they end life support such as mechanical ventilation or do you mean euthanasia or assisted suicide. If it is to remove life support i think they should discuss that.
2007-01-17 19:26:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, they should be. As long as the patient has Advanced Directives in place, a POA and has discussed these things with these people.
2007-01-21 13:56:10 · answer #4 · answered by Queen-o-the-Damned 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If they were in a critcal condition.
If I had a car accident & can choose to between being a paraplegic or die I would choose to die since after living for so long as I have. Itd be too much to cope with trying to adjust.
2007-01-17 19:08:14 · answer #5 · answered by Jasper 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
absolutely!
2007-01-17 19:07:11 · answer #6 · answered by KRIS 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋