Choose one of the loltowing eases. Discuss what you will do it’ you are an immediate family member.
Choose one of the loltowing eases. Discuss what you will do it’ you are an immediate family member. 0r reset on the court’s decision about the case. A. In March 1993 Anthony Bland had lain in persistent vegetative state for three years before a Court Order allowed his degradation and indignity to come to a merciful close. Thejudges said that if he had made a living will expressing his future wishes he could have been allowed to die in peace earlier. B. In 1992 Dr Cox openly defied the law and assented to 30 year old Mrs Boycs’ persistent request for voluntary active euthanasia. Mrs Boyes’ was so ill that she "screamed like a dog" if anyone touched her. Conventional medicine did not relieve her agony. In her last days, when she repeatedly requested to die, Dr Cox finally gave her an injection of potassium chloride, bestowing on her the boon ofa peaceful death so many of us feel we am entitled to. DI’CUX, although given a suspended sentence. was hauled through the courts like a common criminal. C. Sue Rodriguez, :1 mother in her early thirties. died slowly of Lou Gehrig’s disease. She lived for several years with the knowledge that her muscles would, one by one, waste away until the day came when, fully conscious. she would choke to death. She begged the Courts to reassure her that a doctor would be allowed to assist her in choosing the moment of death. They refused. She lived on in terror. helped eventually by a doctor who, in February 1994. covcnly broke the law to help her die in peace. A law on assisted suicide with rigorous safeguards could have saved her the nightmare during those months before her death, given her the confidence to carry on – with the reassurance that when it got too bad she could rely on a compassionate doctor to follow her wishes at the end. B. "Mr C", a 63 year old prisoner of Jamaican origin had been diagnosed as suffering from chronic paranoid schizophrenia and was treated with drugs and electro- convulsive therapy. In September 1993 the prison doctors found he had gangrene in his right leg. They felt his chance of Survival with conventional treatment was no better than 15%, and so recommended that his leg be amputated below the knee. The prisoner refused amputation and received conventional treatment only. There was a likelihood. however. that gangrene would recur. The prisoner stated he would rather die on two legs than live on one. and his solicitor asked the hospital to promise not to amputate in any circumstances without the prisoners consent. They refused, and he sought a court injunction to uphold his wishes. The court considered expert testimony in the case (known as Re C) and found that, although the prisoner was suffering from schizophrenia, there was nothing to suggest that he did not understand the nature. purpose and effects of treatment; he had understood. and. with a full knowledge that death might result from refusing amputation. had clearly made his choice. The court upheld the prisoner’s right to make an advance refusal of treatment and granted an injunction. The case paved the way for acceptance of advance refusals of medical treatments and so for living wills. Completion ofan Exit living will document could save distressing and drawn—out court proceedings if ever you were incapacitated. —
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