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This 3 page paper is a critical analysis of a journal article that tackles this controversial subject. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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suffering actually seems like a simple request, but its bound up in emotion, religion, and medical and legal ethics. This paper is a critical analysis of a journal article
that tackles this controversial subject. Discussion Were going to take a look at an article entitled "When is physician assisted suicide or euthanasia acceptable?" It appeared in the
Journal of Medical Ethics in December 2003; its seven pages long and was written by: S. Frileux; C Lelievre; MT Munoz Sastre; E Mullet; and PC Sorum. The
aim of the piece is just as stated in the title: the authors hope to determine when physician assisted suicide is acceptable. Frileux et al took as their starting
point the work of Cuperus-Bosma and extended it. Cuperus-Bosma and colleagues were rigorous in their procedures: "They systematically manipulated the characteristics of their patient vignettes in order to determine
the relative impacts of these characteristics on the participants judgments" (Frileux et al, 2003, p. 330). They further examined three variables: type of suffering; life expectancy and whether
or not there had been an explicit request for euthanasia (Frileux et al, 2003). This then is the basis Frileux and the others built on; their aim was to
extend the previous work and determine what lay people felt were the most important factors for them "in judging the acceptability of physicians interventions to end patients lives, but also
in what way these factors interact" (Frileux et al., 2003, p. 330). To do this, they examined a "broad spectrum of factors already shown to affect peoples opinions" including the
patients age, degree of suffering, the patients mental state, whether or not the illness could be cured, and the type of euthanasia contemplated (Frileux et al., 2003, p. 330).
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