Category: Suicide

  • Suicide Among Youth: Issue Review

    General Points Youth is a specific layer of the human society which serves as a basis for the further development of the latter. However, the human society is a rather controversial phenomenon as it is supposed to ensure convenient and peaceful coexistence of people but offers quite an opposite. The modern society is a phenomenon…

  • Teenage Suicide Causes in the United States

    The most difficult period in ones life is the teenage period. The teenagers have to learn social responsibilities, and act as if they are grown-ups though they are still being treated as children (Causes of Teenage Suicide para.1). Moreover, teenagers bodies undergo numerous changes that they fail to understand completely. They end up feeling confused…

  • Suicide Rates Reduction Policy in Arizona

    Rationale and Purpose Suicide is a major public health problem; in 2016, suicide became the cause of 1310 deaths in Arizona (Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System [AHCCS], 2018, p. 1). However, the legislation related to the reduction of suicide rates in Arizona is limited. Suicide prevention policies at schools have received attention (House of…

  • The Act Codenamed H.R. 4861 for Suicide Victims

    The problem of the spread of suicides is one of those that require significant measures and serious attention. Unlike various diseases, the situation cannot be corrected in the case of a successful suicide attempt. It is necessary to develop multiple methods to prevent such issues. Besides, it is essential to create a situation assessment system…

  • Physician-Assisted Suicide in Mrs. Sparzas Case

    Introduction Physician aided suicide normally abbreviated as PAS has been a bone of contention in the field of health law for several years. The main reason is because it has its proponents and opponents which have to be critically analyzed before the action is done. PAS essentially entails the administration of a lethal substance on…

  • Physician-Assisted Suicide: Barretts Case

    Introduction Physician aided suicide and euthanasia are hotly debated topics in healthcare. It should be observed that euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide do not refer to the same thing. In physician-assisted suicide, patients are empowered to ingest legal medications in physician-assisted suicide unlike in euthanasia whereby the drugs are administered by third parties to end life…

  • Uphill, At the Border and Dreams of Suicide

    Mysterious and catching poetry has captivated peoples hearts and minds for centuries. Poetry widely uses various literary devices, such as allegory, allusion, metaphor, etc., which contribute to its expressiveness. The poem Uphill explores the theme of a spiritual journey in an allegorical form. At the Border is another poem using allegory to consider an idea…

  • Assisted Suicide as a Solution in End-of-Life Care

    The following paper stresses the ultimate necessity to help the patients exercise their rights to die in peace using medical assistance rather than suffer or try to commit suicide on their own. The paper also emphasizes the stress and financial issues that the patients families might undergo. For that sake, the relevant literature on the…

  • The Notion of Physician-Assisted Suicide

    In the course of medical practice, physicians are frequently forced to face the dilemma of saving ones life when the patient is rationally willing to make choices in favor of death. To cope with such cases, practitioners came up with the idea of giving doctors the right to intentionally end a patients life in case…

  • Assisted Suicide as a Humane Solution

    Table of Contents Introduction Arguments in Support of Assisted Suicide Disputes Regarding the Assisted Suicide Conclusion References Introduction Assisted suicide, along with euthanasia, serves the purpose of ending the life of an individual. Distinguishing these two methods is important. During euthanasia, a lethal drug is administrated by a physician, whereas during assisted suicide, the patient…