Ethical Reasons To Consider Or Not Consider Exercising An Advance Medical Directive
Joshua Ng Shi Xian (8)
2.12 Naphtali
Question: what are the ethical reasons to consider or not consider exercising an advance medical directive? Is it morally right to end your life?
Advance Medical Directives (AMD) were created and advocated by groups campaigning for euthanasia or contemplating organ donation. The essential purpose of advance directives is to allow people to receive the specific medical treatment they want, or to refuse the medical treatment they do not want, during a time in which a person would otherwise be incapable of expressing their desires.
Advance directives now consist of two areas of focus. The first is the area of Instruction Directives. In this section of the advance directive, the person writing the directive specifies his or her desires in print.
The second area of focus in an advance directive is the section in which an agent is appointed to act as a voice in a situation in which a person cannot express his/her desires. Once an agent is appointed, this person is unable to make medical decisions until it has been declared that the person who appointed the agent is capable of expressing his/her own wishes.
Firstly, let me elaborate on the ethical issues of the AMD
However some people prepare an AMD for practical reasons. Practical does not mean it is the ethnical thing to do. For a terminally ill patient in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), euthanasia might be practical from the financial sense, but not ethical even if the family is bankrupt. This is because a person’s life is precious and we cannot put a price tag to it.
Secondly, even if euthanasia is legal, it does not mean it is ethnical. Some religions find it unethical to take one’s own life. Many cultures also discourage individuals from doing so. I personally feel there is nothing dignified about dying.
Having discussed these considerations, I feel that an AMD should only be signed when we have conscious control of what we are doing by balancing practical and ethnical
2.12 Naphtali
Question: what are the ethical reasons to consider or not consider exercising an advance medical directive? Is it morally right to end your life?
Advance Medical Directives (AMD) were created and advocated by groups campaigning for euthanasia or contemplating organ donation. The essential purpose of advance directives is to allow people to receive the specific medical treatment they want, or to refuse the medical treatment they do not want, during a time in which a person would otherwise be incapable of expressing their desires.
Advance directives now consist of two areas of focus. The first is the area of Instruction Directives. In this section of the advance directive, the person writing the directive specifies his or her desires in print.
The second area of focus in an advance directive is the section in which an agent is appointed to act as a voice in a situation in which a person cannot express his/her desires. Once an agent is appointed, this person is unable to make medical decisions until it has been declared that the person who appointed the agent is capable of expressing his/her own wishes.
Firstly, let me elaborate on the ethical issues of the AMD
However some people prepare an AMD for practical reasons. Practical does not mean it is the ethnical thing to do. For a terminally ill patient in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), euthanasia might be practical from the financial sense, but not ethical even if the family is bankrupt. This is because a person’s life is precious and we cannot put a price tag to it.
Secondly, even if euthanasia is legal, it does not mean it is ethnical. Some religions find it unethical to take one’s own life. Many cultures also discourage individuals from doing so. I personally feel there is nothing dignified about dying.
Having discussed these considerations, I feel that an AMD should only be signed when we have conscious control of what we are doing by balancing practical and ethnical