...Final Five Wishes CW Psych 210-B13 Liberty University I currently am twenty years old. Death is not something I think about much. I rarely ever ponder the decision that would need to be made if ever put in what could be considered a critical position. I am so young, so fresh in life, making a name for myself, death and my last wishes are not things I have honestly sat down to straighten out. While pondering my last wishes I felt overwhelmed, slightly depressed. At this point in time, I have no husband or offspring, just my friends, parents, siblings, and boyfriend. I kept thinking, “Parents are not supposed to face final five wishes in regards to their children, it should be the other way around.” However, I know how fragile life is and how real death is, I know that any moment I could be laying on my death bed and begging my parents to carry out my last wishes. First Wish: I would appoint my father as my medical power of attorney if I were put in a situation where I was incapable of making them for myself. I choose my father because he and I have talk many times about what we want for ourselves if we were put in situations like this. I would like to use my body for a better purpose; if I cannot use it then I want someone who can to use it. I am an organ donor, as well as my dad, and I want to make sure that my body can help other people. My father respects my wish, however my mother does not. I would also want to be cremated, what is the point in wasting...
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...eternity with his lover, to ‘feel’ her ‘ripening breast’ and ‘hear’ her ‘tender-taken breath’; without this enduring devotion, he would rather ‘swoon in death’. Give him love, or give him death! ! UNPACKING A PARAGRAPH ON FORM ‘Bright Star’ takes the form of a Shakespearean sonnet, also borrowing its lyrical style and a heartfelt, forlorn tone. This mood is inseparable from its two-part STRUCTURE: the octave (lines 1-8) focuses on the speaker’s rejection of the lonesome, watchful ‘bright star’, while the sestet (lines 9-14) turns towards love, and how the speaker pines for a timeless world with his lover. ! The steady abab RHYME SCHEME of the quatrains enhances this melancholic, patient longing expressed by the speaker. Particularly, the rhyming pair of ‘human shores / the moors’ highlights the melodic beauty of nature that is meaningless in the eyes of the speaker, while the ‘swell’ of his lover’s body finds no match in ‘unchangeable’. The rhyme itself perhaps suggests the impossibility of fulfilling the speaker’s wish, which is mirrored in the poem’s closing lines. ! The FINAL COUPLET evokes a graver and more absolute tone compared to the preceding twelve lines. The couplet expresses one last wish to ‘live ever’ in the company of his loved one and ends with a choice between love everlasting and death; for the speaker, life without ‘her tender-taken breath’ is not worth living. !...
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...John registered as a donor when he was 18 and continued to carry his donor registration card with him in his wallet; until at the age of 32, John suffered a brain hemorrhage, rendering him comatose on a ventilator with no hope of neurological recovery. His parents wish to withdrawal life support, allowing him to pass away naturally. They do not wish to proceed with the organ donation nor have they specified a reason for this. John is single rendering his parents are legally his next-of-kin. So, is it ethical to allow John’s parents to veto his organ donation? John, his parents and the subsequent recipients of the potential organ donation all have viable incentives in the outcome of this case and each can be addressed when appealing to three...
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...A Request to Die PHI200: Mind and Machine (GSI1116I) April 25, 2011 A Request to Die Susan M. Wolf (2008) wrote a very touching article (p.23-26) regarding the pain and suffering her father endured during his final days of battling with several sicknesses. Not only did she have to see her father in pain and getting weaker and weaker, she now had to deal with him verbally expressing the desire to let him die. The love she felt for her father was so strong that she wanted to grant him this final wish, but also wanted to ensure he would not suffer from this and be as comfortable as possible. Due to his health rapidly deteriorating and he was in more pain every day, she began to seek assistance from the many hospitals he sought care in to help end her father’s suffering. This will be a brief discussion of the issue of ethics regarding physician-assisted suicide, her final consensus to this matter being interpreted as a deontological view verses my own view being the utilitarian view. I would also like to state that I do agree with Susan Wolf’s attempts to locate hospital officials to try and let her father die as he wished, but I do not agree with her final decision that she is still against legalizing physician-assisted suicides. Susan M. Wolf did extensive research on the subject of physician-assisted suicides and her stance of being against the legalizing of it is very clear. While going through her own personal tragedy with her dying father, she was forced to rethink...
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...making their first wish and seeing the outcome, they wonder if changing their destiny with their wishes was a good idea at all. “Aunty Misery”, by Judith Ortiz Cofer, is a short story about a woman who makes a wish for children to stop plucking the pears off from her pear tree. Though the...
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...Death Submitted by Jlloyd89 on November 11, 2007 Category: Philosophy Words: 676 | Pages: 3 Views: 69 Popularity Rank: 77,287 Average Member Grade: N/A (Add a Comment / Grade this Paper) Death Death to me is going to be an adventure because I will get to see the whole meaning right in front of my eyes. I will learn that the meaning to life had to do with the relationships I made with people and how I treated them along the journey. Saint Peter will judge us at the gates of heaven and we will see our life pass before us. Death will come as a surprise to most, which makes it hard to deal with. But for some, people will know when they are going to die which will make it easier to handle because they can say their goodbyes to everyone before the person who is going to die takes their final breathe of life. Death is going to be hard for me to comprehend with because I hate the fact that I am going to have to leave this life behind me. I live such a good life, and when it comes done to judgment time, I really want to get into heaven. I will look back on my life and hopefully be satisfied when I take that final breathe and keep my eyes open for the final time. I want to be able to do things that I have always wanted to do, like travel the world and make a family. I don't want to live a meaningless life that was no final answer in the end. That's why we die, because each one of our lives is going to have a final answer in the end that tells us why we were set on this earth...
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...A Catharsis for All Henry Louis Mencken’s essay, entitled "The Penalty of Death," is a persuasive essay about the death penalty. The author does not attempt to alter the reader’s opinion as to the merits of the death penalty. He attempts to answer two questions most commonly heard in his day. First, executing a person is a terrible business and it “degrades” (Mencken) those whom-ever choose to administer this style of justice as a profession. He addresses this first question by simply agreeing with it. Most people would agree that the prospect of being the hangman is a vocation that would be most unpleasant. He points out that although it may be unpleasant, it is still necessary for society to support such a profession. The second question he addresses is to those that view capital punishment as a useless deterrent to crime. The author contends that those who wish to abolish the death sentence are in error if their assumption is founded solely upon the mistaken belief that the “whole purpose” of punishing a criminal is to deter some potential future crime. Mencken believes that they are “confusing [a] part with the whole” (Mencken). The future deterrent is only a part of the “whole purpose” of punishing a criminal. There are many more reasons to list: like revenge, justice, or relief just to name a few. Mencken's primary purpose is to identify the motive for this type of punishment. He identifies this motive as a catharsis, and he describes it as a "healthy letting out of...
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...supposed magical talisman, by a family friend in which the possessor acquires three wishes. However, with these wishes come consequences. Before obtaining the talisman their family friend, Sargent-Major Morris, told the family how he received it from the previous owner when they used their last wish for death. He also warned them of the mischief it caused by his wishes. He then threw the talisman into the fire in which Mr. White retrieved it. Against his better judgment, Sargent Morris fearfully instructed Mr. White how to make the wishes and to heed his warning about the supposed consequences. After a suggestion by his son, Mr. White wishes for money to pay off the house, the money comes from the company that his son worked for because he passed away in a horrible accident at work when he got caught in the machinery. A few days later a distraught Mrs. White wants Mr. White to wish him back to life, which he reluctantly does. Later in the night there is a knocking on the door and Mrs. White races to answer the door believing it is her son. As Mrs. White frantically tries to unlock the door, Mr. White fears that it is not his son at the door and uses his last wish to wish his son back to his final resting place. The knocking stops just as Mrs. White opens the door and finds no one there. The monkey’s paw causes one of the critical aspects of this story. In this short story, the author wants you to believe that something bad was going to happen if the White family used the three wishes...
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...him to his weakest point and to his ultimate doom? In the story of Antigone, Creon is a noble king that has done a good job of serving his people and the gods after the tragic fall of his brother-in-law and nephew, Oedipus. Trouble arises when a conflict between Creon and his niece, Antigone, begs of him to let her bury her brother. The story ends in the destruction of the royal family and the ultimate downfall of Creon. In the story of Antigone, Creon is portrayed as a tragic hero because of his hubris, ignorance, and his final destruction. Throughout the story, Creon exhibits features of the tragic flaw as he is shown as very prideful. First, Creon’s pride does not allow him to grant Antigone’s wish and he throws her in the dungeon for her disobedience. Then Creon places himself above the law of the gods and the prophecy delivered to him by Teiresias when he does not allow Antigone to be set free. This leads to the death of his son, followed by the death of his mother. Creon’s pride is his ultimate destruction and it is the reason his family dies....
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...This essay will demonstrate that it is not “always morally worse to kill than it is to let die”. It will be argued that passive euthanasia (i.e. letting someone die) is not morally wrong and that active euthanasia (i.e. accelerating their death) is no less moral. However, the many complications associated with the legalisation of active euthanasia (and euthanasia in general) must be identified and addressed. These identified complications may be eliminated with an appropriate regulatory regime. Assuming that identified complications can be overcome, and having established that it is not always morally worse to kill than to let die, it will be demonstrated that active euthanasia should not be banned. Morality, as defined by the Oxford Dictionary, is “principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behaviour”1. Hinde states that the principles are influenced and changed by one’s society and culture but also “based in human nature”2. As morality is influenced by society, public opinion is important when it comes to controversial issues. Morality differs from place to place and evolves over time. To compound this diversity, changes in medical treatment, and discoveries which enhance medical knowledge evolves rapidly and what was not even conceivable in some cultures or at certain points in history are now commonly accepted. Developments in end of life care fall within this category. With our increased ability to prolong life, arguments can now be made...
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...ADVANCE DIRECTIVES Week 7 Assignment Melanie Kay De Vry University Health Rights and Responsibilities Professor Van Orsdale December 11, 2010 The Federal Patient Self-Determination Act of 1991 mandates that adult patients admitted in any healthcare facility that is funded by Medicare or Medicaid must be asked if they have an advance directive or if they wish to have information about self-determination directives. Legally and ethically this type of system is being and should always be used is so that any patient can feel as though they have control over their health care situation. It is predetermining what you want done in case of failure of your ability to communicate with your health care professionals. In this advance directive situations such as long term care, inability to speak and direct on your behalf, irreversible vegetative state and other medical criteria should be discussed and be put in writing in order for your wishes to be fulfilled. If these wishes are to be abided by your medical professional and family they should be put in writing and given each time you are hospitalized to the medical staff to be included in your permanent medical records. Any changes that are made should be added to this medical record in order for your most recent wishes are abided by. Ethically and legally if theses advance directives are in writing the medical staff will abide by the rules you have set forth. A living will allows you to indicate...
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...Canterbury Tales included several fictitious pilgrims, each having a prologue to describe them and a story to tell. The Pardoner, Chaucer's final pilgrim, acts and looks in a way deplorable to the rest of the travelers. The Pardoner is "man" most notable for his greed, physical abnormalities, and denial of the fictitious. His tale condemns his own nature, and shows the effects of alcohol on the human superego. Chaucer's description of the Pardoner is crucial to an understanding of his tale. The Pardoner's prologue although short, introduces the pardoner as a greedy man, who is willing to take advantage of others to get his fortune. His primary role as a pardoner is to...
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...The Faceless Woman A famous leader during the Enlightenment by the name of Mary Wollstonecraft, once said: ‘Women [has] always understood themselves as having an obligation to stand on the side of the silenced, the oppressed, and the mistreated.” Women yet to this day, still face oppression from society towards their genders. It is in “The Awakening”, a novel written by Kate Chopin, that we can see women’s emotional turmoil when met with social injustice. Edna’s death scene reinforces the idea that women are silenced when confronted with society’s unjust portrayal of a woman's identity. Edna’s final moment in death shows just how far she had evolved from her being a mindless doll that followed society’s every whim, to blossoming into a person...
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...alone speak. Your life was well lived all those years before. You are in such unbearable pain that you can’t even cry. Although your family is there for your every step of the way you begin to think, could ending your life be the answer to the pain? You are in more pain than you can bear. There is no way that you could function without assistance. You think and feel as if your life has no meaning. Well in all reality this isn’t something anyone needs to imagine. This is a real situation for many, many people. These people should be able to make their own choices and have control of their own lives. B. Background information of the topic: Euthanasia is a term still new to many of us. It is a Greek term meaning ‘good death’. It means self imposed death in a relatively painless and merciful way. Euthanasia is categorized in different ways, which include voluntary, non-voluntary, or involuntary and active or passive. Euthanasia is usually used to refer to active euthanasia, and in this sense, euthanasia is usually considered to be criminal homicide, but voluntary, passive euthanasia is widely non-criminal. C. Preview of the speech (central idea): Now let's take a look at the reasons on why euthanasia should be legalized. Euthanasia is about giving people the right to choose how they want to live and die, saves money in medical bills, and it also stops the person from having a bad quality of life. Transition to body of speech : II. BODY A. Main-point 1: Everyone...
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...Analytical Essay In the stories “The Lottery”, “The American Flag Stands For Tolerance”, and “What Of This Goldfish Do You Wish”, the authors do not support the quote by Barbara Johnson. They don’t support Barbara Johnson's quote which is “We as human beings must be willing to accept people different from ourselves.” In “The Lottery”, the story is about a small town that holds a lottery every year and about three hundred people gather at the event. Men from each family go up to the black box and draw a number and if your number gets drawn you get stoned to death by the people living in that town. At the end of the story a woman's winning lottery number gets drawn and she starts getting rocks thrown at her until Tessie Hutchinson dies because...
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