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The End of Life-Long Illness

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In life every person is confronted with a challenges and obstacles. The biggest challenge a person could face is a lifelong illness or incurable disease. When faced with the decision of what to do when faced with a major issue such as a life changing health issue some people may feel their quality of life no longer exist. Do people have the right to end their life when they choose to? This question can raise a lot of issue concerning what is morally right. When thinking about this question when have to consider, a persons quality of life dealing with this medical issue, the pain a person will have to endure while living with a illness, and a persons mental and emotional state when making this decision. A person dealing with a debilitating disease quality of life can drop drastically. Mosser, K. (2013) explains, Ethics can raise troubling questions not only about seemingly ordinary activities like eating, but also its most difficult and mysterious ones, such as death. Suppose Richard's wife of 40 years, Elizabeth, has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Elizabeth, who is in her 70s, has been told by several different physicians that the disease is unquestionably terminal; she can expect to live at most another 18 months, over which time she will experience increasing levels of pain. Drugs can minimize the pain but not fully relieve it. As the weeks go by, Elizabeth experiences increasingly agonizing pain. Her doctor has given her the strongest drugs available, and in massive doses, but they seem not to work. Through it all, Richard has to helplessly watch his wife suffer. Is it fair to not let a person that live in pain daily to not to be able to make the decision to end their own life? This example gives us an idea of the suffering that a person with a terminal disease can live with each day. Mosser, K. (2013) writes, A person who is virtually certain to die within a given amount of time and is experiencing or will experience a

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