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This 5 page paper examines some of the issues surrounding the California Compassionate Choices Act (CCCA), which would allow terminally ill California adults to end their own lives with physician assistance. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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agony with no hope of recovery, there is still a question as to whether or not that person should be allowed to choose death. This paper examines some of
the issues surrounding the California Compassionate Choices Act (CCCA), which would allow terminally ill California adults to end their own lives with physician assistance. Discussion The "right to
die" is a "hot button" issues that stirs up deep emotions on both sides, and it raises ethical problems for nurses, doctors and other caregivers. Western medicine doesnt seek to
prevent disease; thats not our tradition. Rather, it is dedicated to curing disease after it has begun; to preserving life and to fighting as hard as possible to extend
that life, even when the patient is in agony, in a persistent vegetative state (PVS), or unable to perform even the simplest acts for himself. For nurses trained in
the West, the very idea of allowing a patient to request drugs to end his life is anathema. It goes against everything they have been taught and everything they
believe about the sanctity of life. In short, they may well feel that the CCCA is unethical. Much of the dismay accompanying the objections to this Act comes from
the belief that only God has the right to end a life. Assisting a patient to die is usurping the position that rightly belongs to God, and for religious
people, this can be extremely distressing. As in the case of abortion, some nurses may wish to excuse themselves from working with patients who choose to pursue medical procedures
that they cannot accept because of their beliefs that they are unethical. It might help if the nurses who work with terminal patients are aware of what is,
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