Question Description

 

Term Paper Requirements:

 

 

After completing your reading, along with any other sources, if any, of your choosing, address

 

 

 

and support your particular position/view on the following specific issues, and, specifically, how

 

 

 

you would apply the Saint Leo University core values of community, respect, and integrity into

 

 

 

your actions. Be sure to use proper APA format for citations.

 

 

 

 

1. What are the potential foreseeable financial, psychological, and medical, yet unintended,

 

 

 

 

harmful consequences to one’s family and friends in failing to provide a properly

 

executed will and living will prior to one’s final illness and death?

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. What are the fundamental distinctions between recuperative medical care and palliative care? Who should be included in the decision to modify care from recuperative to

 

 

 

palliative? When, if ever, is the right to refuse any and all medical care appropriate

 

 

 

when such virtually ensures the death of the patient?

 

 

 

3. What professionals, medical or otherwise, should be involved in advising decisions

 

 

 

concerning end-of-life wishes? How does euthanasia differ from a simple cessation of

 

 

 

treatment? Who should make end of life decisions for those who are without a family

 

 

 

member to take on such a role?

 

 

 

4. What measures can be taken to ensure the quality of ongoing family and social

 

 

 

relationships, individually and as a group, to end-of-life patients? What pitfalls are to be

 

 

 

avoided in ensuring maintenance of these relationships? What actions may be taken to

 

 

 

ensure the spiritual and existential dimensions of the process are respected and

 

 

 

integrated?