Critical Thinking Question: You have been hired by an attorney working on the fo

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Critical Thinking Question: You have been hired by an attorney working on the following case: a doctor helped a woman with Alzheimer's disease commit suicide. The woman was in the early stages of the disease and had not lost any physical or mental abilities, but was quite despondent over the diagnosis and wanted to prevent her family from having to deal with her suffering Was this acceptable? Why or why not? Remember to include some of the symptoms she could plan on showing as her Alzheimer's progressed

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This was not acceptable. Physician assisted suicide is the form of suicide in which the physician would be aiding another person to commit suicide. This would be done by prescribing lethal doses of the drugs, which the patient would administer on their own.

This should be administered to a person only if they are in the last stage of their disease. Where death is inevitable. This would resist the person from any sort of prolonged pain. This would especially be done for patients who would be having a decreased ability to participate in various activities, followed by loss of dignity and autonomy.

But, in the case provided, the patient did not have any physical or cognitive disabilities. Even though a bad condition was inevitable, though, that stage would come much later in life. In a condition as that, where, the life span would be less than 6 months, such suicide would be considered valid.

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