Assisted suicide
Assisted suicide
| 1. Define the scope of the ethical issue. 2. Examine the scope of the issue as it relates to nursing and principles identified in codes of ethics. 3. Identify at least 2 positions taken on this issue by scholarly experts in the ethics discipline. 4. Explore the future for the issue as it relates to nursing practi |
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. The scope of the ethical issue.
Assisted suicide refers to the action of killing oneself intentionally with the help of someone offering the means or knowledge of doing so. However, the term suicide has negative connotations and hence, the use of various terms to describe it. Though suicide in most jurisdictions is not illegal, it is considered immoral. There is a difference between physician aid-in-dying and euthanasia. Where physician aid-in-dying is approved, physicians may offer medications to patients that will enable them to end their lives provided they meet certain criteria, though the medication…
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