Question

End of life in Canada, if a patients wants to refuse treatment and dye, what are some legal risks to the health professionals

Answer 1

Generally in assisted suicide or euthanasia the healthcare professionals at various levels (clinical level or management level or both) will face ethical issues at healthcare institutions. In healthcare ethical issues dealing are not uncommon. Physician assisted death is defined as “suicide by a patient facilitated by drug prescription or by an indication of a lethal dosage provided by a physician aware of the patient's intent. For taking each and every ethical decision can make an ethical implications and this kind of decisions can affect patients, healthcare leaders and providers. It is because the life is a precious gift given by God with gratitude. So we should give vale and take concern about every possible way to enhance. But in the process of assisted suicide before exhausting a person making every preventive effort is always inevitable. We should make it legally possible for the compassionate to show clemency to the dying who request intervention to end their suffering. Physicians cannot be prosecuted for prescribing medications to hasten death. For physician assisted death Individuals must have a terminal illness as well as a prognosis of six months or less to live.

The physician moral integrity and basic role can clearly define the professional integrity and also medical practitioners are additionally considering three important further moral commitments. These are known as autonomy the patient’s right to choose their treatment, non-maleficence, and the final moral commitment is justice, ensuring the provision of fair and equal treatment for all patients. Morrison & Furlong (2014) states that understanding the professional integrity can includes with the relief of suffering and always give respect to patient voluntary choice. Finally allow patients to achieve his peaceful death. In extremely cases, doctors might feel fewer obligations to give the best care for the patient if physician could decide death as solution to the agonies of life. It is still a controversy issue.

In Canada, assisted suicide advertisement is banned recently (“Assisted suicide ad banned in Canada). There is an illegal issue about physician assisted suicide due to an encouragement of suicide for audiences in the advertisement. Euthanasia is describing the manner of “intentionally kills himself with the help of another individual. Another individual might kill the patient through a medication. In canada there are different perspectives to point out the problems against euthanasia or physician assisted suicide. First, some religious people argue that God, not humans, should decide the time for death. As we know as far, religious people believe that human is created by God. That’s mean the patient requests to be killed by another individual, is the way against the will of God over our lives. The patient should suffer the pain up until the death that results from a natural disease process. “Some non-religious people also believe that suffering has value. The canadian government belive thatif they can legalized the euthanasia, doctor may starts to kill patients without any permission. Everything about the euthanasia or physician assisted suicide case will out of control. It is hard for government keep proper regulation when euthanasia is legal. The euthanasia and physician assisted suicide should not be legal since there are many problems that have not yet been dissolved. It is strongly recommended canada government do not legalizing the euthanasia and physician assisted suicide. It is because it gives a bad example for people gives up their life easily when the euthanasia is legal.

Reference:

Carter v. Canada (Attorney General), 2015 SCC 5 [Internet]. 2015 [cited 2015 Jun 10].

Available from:https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scccsc/scc-csc/en/item/14637/index.do.

Department of Justice . Government of Canada establishes expert panel on options for legislative response to Carter v Canada [Internet] Ottawa (ON): Government of Canada; 2015.

Flegel K, Fletcher J . Choosing when and how to die: Are we ready to perform therapeutic homicide? CMAJ2012;184:1227.