for the initial post of this week’s
for the initial post of this week’s discussion respond to one of the following options, and label the beginning of your post indicating either Option 1, Option 2, or Option 3: Option 1: You are a nurse on a floor with only elderly patients. Every day, each patient tells you about how much pain they are in and asks you to help them. They want you to inject them with something to end their lives. If the patients die, the beds on that floor would be freed up for other patients. The hospital is at 100 percent capacity. There is no other hospital for 30 miles. Other patients may be not receiving care due to a lack of free beds. What is the moral thing to do here? Why is that the moral thing to do? What would an utilitarian say is the moral thing to do? Why would they say that? Compare and contrast the utilitarian approach with that of an ethical egoist or social contact theorist Hi everyone, Option 1 This scenario can be difficult to decide what is morally right to do. An elderly patient is ready to die, and other patients need care. I personally would not provide a lethal injection to a patient because euthanasia is not legal in my resident state. However, there is another option for the patient. Home hospice or palliative care can be options for these patients. Palliative home care not only frees up beds in the hospital, but also provides the patient with comfort measures and providing a dignified death. Palliative and hospice care does not provide physician assisted suicide, however, it does manage the patient’s pain and prioritize their comfort until they pass away naturally. This would be the moral thing to do because you are not taking the life of anyone, but you are providing compassionate care during end of life as well as freeing up beds to treat other patients. Utilitarianism believes that doing something for the greater good is the morally right thing to do. A utilitarian would agree with the patient because euthanasia would relieve the patient of their pain and possible suffering as well as providing more beds to treat even more people. In turn, an ethical egoist is motivated by what may benefit themself. An ethical egoist would agree to provide euthanasia to the patients asking for it because the patients would be getting what they want and what they feel will benefit them the most. While both agree with the patient, the reasons why are completely different. References ProCon.org. (2022, July 7). States with legal physician-assisted suicide – euthanasia – procon.org. Euthanasia. Retrieved September 20, 2022, from https://euthanasia.procon.org/states-with-legal-physician-assisted-suicide/ (Links to an external site.) Rachels, S., & Rachels, J. (2019). The elements of moral philosophy. (9th Ed.). McGraw-Hill Education.
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