Instructions Return to the topic you chose in the week three assignment. Articulate a specific dilemma in a situation faced by a particular person based on that topic. The situation can be real or...

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Return to the topic you chose in the week three assignment. Articulate a specific dilemma in a situation faced by a particular person based on that topic. The situation can be real or fictional.






Topic:EUTHANASIA AND ETHICS






  • Summarize the dilemma.

  • Define any needed key terms associated with the dilemma.

  • Analyze the conflicts or controversies involved in the dilemma.


Revise and rewrite based on any feedback you received in your previous draft (week three). Reference and discuss any professional code of ethics relevant to your topic such as the AMA code for doctors, the ANA code for nurses, etc. State whether and how your chosen topic involves any conflicts between professional and familial duties or conflicts between loyalty to self and loyalty to a community or nation.


What in your view is the most moral thing for that person to do in that dilemma? Why is that the most moral thing? Use moral values and logical reasoning to justify your answer


Next, apply the following:



  • Aristotle’s Golden Mean to the dilemma

  • Utilitarianism to the dilemma

  • Natural Law ethics to the dilemma


Which of those three theories works best ethically speaking? Why that one?


Why do the other two not work or not work as well?


Is it the same as what you said is the most moral thing earlier? Why or why not?


Use the 5 articles from your annotated bibliography to support your answers. (Additional academic scholarly research from the past5 years can be included as well.)


Include a reference page at the end of your paper in APA format that includes your bibliography with the annotationsremovedand any other sources used in your final paper.



Writing Requirements (APA format)



  • Length: 4-5 pages (not including title page or references page)

  • 1-inch margins

  • Double spaced

  • 12-point Times New Roman font

  • Title page

  • References page (minimum of 5 scholarly sources)

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Answer To: Instructions Return to the topic you chose in the week three assignment. Articulate a specific...

Abhinaba answered on Aug 21 2021
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Running Head: EUTHANASIA AND ETHICS         1
EUTHANASIA AND ETHICS         2
EUTHANASIA AND ETHICS
Table of Contents
Introduction    3
Euthanasia and Ethics – The Difference    3
Euthanasia and the Right to Choose    4
Medical Ethics in Euthanasia    4
Aristotle’s Golden Mean
to the dilemma    4
AMA Code for Doctors    5
Conflict between professional duties or conflict between loyalty to self    5
Conclusion    6
Introduction
    From the past many decades, euthanasia is a controversial debate topic in the society. Euthanasia or the physician-assisted suicide is among the topics, which get approval from a part of society, and the part of the society disapproves it. In many circumstances, medical decision-making contributes to hasten the death of a patient and different community have different understanding regarding the role of the health professional in this setting. Usually this kind of system is carried away in the hospital far away from the friends and family. Nevertheless, the ethics is the reason that hinders the mind of the people to let this activity carried on. The ethical views of the people did not allow them to persuade such things with their own consent. In addition, for that cause it is a matter of conflict between these two points of view of people.
Euthanasia and Ethics – The Difference
    Euthanasia is the action of ending someone life, it is done to relieve someone from the unbearable suffering. Doctors usually carry on euthanasia on the special request of the people who is been suffering from a terminal illness or a painful disease which cannot be cured by medication, whereas ethics is the set of Morales, guidelines, principles and beliefs which is governed by the inner conscience of a person (Boudreau & Somerville, 2014). It is the basic sense, which allows a people to differ between the right and wrong. The major difference that set an opposite bar between the euthanasia and ethics is ethics is the positivity or the belief of a person that allows them to maintain the humanity whereas looking at the counterpart euthanasia is considered as an unethical practice by most of the people (The Ethics Centre, 2020).
Euthanasia and the Right to Choose
    Although there is a strong debate over this topic in the society some advocate that it is a simpler way to free someone with a dignity with the unbearable pain he is suffering from while some thoughts that it is the most unethical way to be continued on. As ending someone, life knowingly is a crime in itself. Euthanasia is advocated may be morally right because it is well known that something is considered morally correct of it...
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