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Ms. As doctor should first attempt to find a medication that would not cause her to be

unconscious. If a medication can not be found, then the doctor should sedate her until she dies.

The patients rare disease causes her to deal with a great amount of pain. There is not much that

could be done as her worsening condition prevents her from receiving further medical

interventions, such as surgery, and the patient continues to be in a depressive state.

Reasons

- Give Ms. A medication to respect her autonomy. Prior to any further interventions, the

doctors should look for any other options to try to grant Ms. A her request for being alert

when she passes away. Then the caregivers are not dismissing her desires as a patient

who is sick and incompetent, but are treating her as an end of herself. The attempt it self

will leave Ms. A feeling betrayed and the doctors feeling regretful because the doctors

provided her with the best they could to best meet her desires.
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o Feminist ethics is a moral theory that isfeminist approaches to ethics are

political, in the sense that they are keenly aware of imbalances of power

betweenpoor, healthy and disabled and are also marked by attention to the so-

called private sphere, including reflection on intimate relations (29).

o virtues of kindness, generosity, helpfulness, and sympathy (30)
o Ethic of care importance of human relationships, empathy, and an

acknowledgement of dependency with moral insight, virtue, and character in

determining how to deal with ethical issues (30).

o The doctors should sedate her because the pain is giving her a lot of various

difficulties. It would be wrong to make her have to consciously endure it and

make her suffer.

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 o Dresser and Robertsons Quality of Life and Non-treatment Decisions for

Incompetent Patients: A Critique of the Orthodox Approach (p.401)

The treatment preferences from when individual was a competent patient,

reflects their values of a worthwhile life when they were competent.

Values of what is significant will change
o Therefore, we should not simply stick to forcing her to consciously endure the

pain to fulfill an interest that may not be of no value to the patient anymore.
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o Fagerlin and Schneigers Enough: The Failure of the Living Will
It is difficult to know exactly what the patient would want in the situation

with unidentifiable maladies with unpredictable treatments (358).

Decisions are made by various factors such as how we interpret and

understand the information and how the information is presented to us

(358)
The patient will not know what he or she wants until the situation.

Objection

- It is better to actively kill euthanize her rather than to sedate her till she passes away.
- Rachels Active and Passive Euthanasia
o Active and passive euthanasia both have the same motives so neither is justifiable

Response

- Arrass Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Tragic View

Conclusions