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When requesting assistance in suicide or euthanasia, patients often express a concern about “losing dignity” in their present condition or at some future stage in their progressive illness or disability. The term dignity can have different meanings and is open to interpretation. Discuss your own interpretation of dying with dignity to identify the patient’s concerns and address them appropriately.
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Both euthanasia and assisted suicide culminate in the termination of a life. However, patients express concerns about losing dignity if they continue living a natural life with a terminal illness and wait for natural death. To that effect, the term dying with dignity has numerous meanings to different people, but it means dying in a non-painful way. It means to have a death that is peaceful, humane and planned. When a person has a terminal illness, their health and physical well-being will continually deteriorate. In the long run….. To access full answer, use the purchase button below.