People Face A Terrifying Moral Dilemma

With regard to utilitarianism, “the moral theory that holds that an action can be considered good or bad in relation to its end result” (Burkhardt & Nathaniel, 2012, p. 40), health care workers make daily decisions that impact other people’s lives. When making decisions for health care issues, I think about what I can do that can help the majority of the people involved, as opposed to helping just one person in general, “distributive justice” (Burkhardt & Nathaniel, 2012, p. 81).
The video, People Face a Terrifying Moral Dilemma (BuzzFeedBlue, 2015), depicts three scenarios in which people must decide who is protected from imminent death, and who will not be protected. With scenario one, the decision is easy for me. I would, most definitely,
I would like to think that I would still pull the lever and switch the tracks. Not that losing one life is unimportant, but as compared to five lives I would prefer to lose only one. Scenario three is one of the toughest decisions that any person would have to make. Do I switch the tracks to protect the five people that I do not know or do I not intervene with the path the trolley is traveling to protect one of my loved ones? Thinking strictly as a nurse, I would want to pull the lever and suffer the consequences of having a part in my loved one’s death. As a family member, I would want to allow the trolley to continue on the current path. Being a person that believes everything happens for a reason, I would grab the lever, close my eyes, and pray. Knowing that God will make the right decision or will forgive me for taking the life of my loved one to protect five others. I would, more than likely, sacrifice my loved one to save five other people. After the fact, I am not sure I would be able to forgive myself, but the aftermath is not in question. In an emergency situation, one reacts without regard to the consequences. I would still pull the