Should Adolescent be allowed to Make Their Own Life and Death Decisions? Advances in biomedical technology have to cures that were only imagined a few years ago (Stein‚ et al. 2001). New ethical dilemmas have been brought into medical care of patients by these advances‚ especially those with life-threatening condition. Decisions for medical treatment must include a thorough understanding of the procedure and major side effects‚ especially pain and disability and their duration (Stein
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Prepubescent/pubescent are underrated adults. Since adult independence begins at the age of eighteen‚ most medical decisions for the children under eighteen are being made by their parents. However‚ research has shown that children are capable of making ’adult’ decisions by the age of eleven (e.g. medical decisions). Children should be allowed legally to make their own medical decision at the age of twelve because they are underrated‚ they are capable of great thinking at age eleven‚ and there are
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think farther. Therefore‚ they always make decisions for their teenage children. This may affect teenagers’ futures because they will become dependent on their parents and they will not be able to make their own decisions correctly. They will neither have their own goals nor ambitions because everything in their lives is made up and decided by their parents. They end up not knowing how to deal with responsibilities as they grow up. They will not have proper decision making skills because their parents
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After becoming deeply engaged to The Giver’s plot and way of life‚ I have concluded that it would not be appropriate for Jonas’ community to be allowed to make their own choices. I believe this because of many reasons. Firstly‚ no one in Jonas’ community but the Receiver of Memory and his successor have memories of the past. Giving the people choice would only cause them to repeat sorrowful mistakes‚ since they do not know any better. The Giver says so himself when he recalls the experience of when
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Everyone has rights when they enter the world. Everyone is always told to make pleasing choices in one’s life. What might happen if everyone was allowed to make their own decisions? What would our society become? Underage activities‚ disobedience to authorities and parents‚ and illegal activities involving the government are just some of the reasons why people shouldn’t decide for themselves. Concerning this topic‚ minors can opt to participate in underage activities such as drinking‚ driving‚ and
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Why should you not be allowed to make decisions about your own body? About yourself? We should respect when people want to die‚ when people have a disease that definitely won´t go away then we should allow these people to die. You are also not selfish‚ because everybody has to respect the one who wants to die. When the person doesn´t want to live anymore‚ doesn´t want to ask for help from others and doesn´t want to suffer anymore then you should allow an end to their misery. It´s your own body‚
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Should parents allow teenagers to make their own decisions? A highly debatable topic indeed. Young adults or still children? I think there would be several schools of thoughts on this particularly controversial issue. Parents in different cultures tend to follow specific sets of instructions usually passed down generations. They believe‚ the moral values they were taught were for the good enough. Those times were tough but they lasted them their entire lives. They don’t remember how they could
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understand information about an illness and information about the proposed treatment options in order to make an ideal decision that is both compatible with their values and preferences (Karlawish). When it comes to medical decision-making‚ capacity is a necessity of a patient in order to be able to make their own decisions. In most cases‚ the question of who gets to make the medical decisions for a patient is resolved as soon as an adult steps into the picture – be it a physician or a relative of
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today seem like having a greater knowledge and confidence if compared to the children in old days that look silly and know nothing. But with the age of only slightly above 15 they do not have emotional maturity or enough experience to take important decisions. During these ages they are living in world that full of adventures and mysterious. Due to their curiosity‚ they can easily be lured by misleading elements in the society‚ both physically and emotionally. They could be exposing to bad habits like
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Should teenager be given right to make decision on their own? Well according to me they shouldn’t be given this right and I would like to prove my point first scientifically by the quotation of a neurologist that “The brain is mostly developing during the teenager’s years i.e. until we reach the age of 20. Since this period is crucial as the brain is easy to manipulate it is important for parents to instill proper social norms into their minds to help their children to fit into the world. Now you
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