ENGL 147N Week 5 Discussion 1: Annotations

ENGL 147N Week 5 Discussion 1: Annotations

ENGL 147N Week 5 Discussion 1: Annotations

Welcome to Week 5! You have two discussion boards due this week. You can begin posting March 30 for credit. On this first discussion, you will be researching a new source for your Pro-Con Position Paper. You will then draft one reference entry and two paragraphs for that source to share on this board. Be sure to format in APA.

You can refer back to our lesson to see the model of an annotated bibliography. The components of the entry are the citation, summary, credibility, and assessment.

For additional reading on source evaluation, see the following article:

Smith, M. D. (2017). Arming students against bad information. Phi Delta Kappan, 99(3), 56. https://doi-org.chamberlainuniversity.idm.oclc.org/10.1177/0031721717739595Links to an external site.

Be sure to post before Wednesday night. See our discussion rubric as a reference when you are writing your initial post.

If you have any questions at all, email me or post to our class Q & A.

Point: Assisted Suicide is Unnecessary

This article is explaining why assisted suicide is unnecessary. It goes into detail about why we should not assume these people who are extremely sick and in pain are at a good place mentally to be making those decisions to end their life. Sometimes when someone is depressed, they do not think rationally. Explains a lot of doctors do not feel comfortable with the thought of assisted suicide. If a person chooses not to eat or not to get out of bed that is their choice and will make their death come sooner so why add a reason to end their life even sooner. There are already many documents in place to explain who decides for a patient in time that they cannot or certain ways they would like certain situations handled in an event where they are unable. The author is named John Pearson. Although he comes up with multiple great points against assisted suicide, he is not a professional and is writing comes from research he has done himself and his opinion. This does not make him very credible. There is not much information on John Pearson, but it seems he is a student and has done all his research himself.

The source relates to my thesis by showing there are already so many things in place and the patient is already able to make decisions on moving forward with their plan of care that some people may see the thought of assisted suicide unnecessary. There are many reasons for a person to end their life if they felt they had to and why involve the doctors who take a vow to try their hardest to save peoples lives. When writing my pro-con paper this article helps give me some ideas on why some medical professionals find assisted suicide unnecessary.

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Pearson,J. (2016, September 30). Point: Assisted Suicide is unnecessary. Retrieved from
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I’ve heard this argument a lot in recent years. Because palliative care has become so much better and there is such a focus on that and hospice, many argue that assisted suicide should not be an option. 

I had not heard the term palliative care until about 8 or 9 years ago. My cousin’s wife’s twin sister was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer at the age of 29. She lived out the last couple of months of her life in palliative care, where she played her guitar and did lots of writing, while also taking visits from friends and family. I am guessing her pain was closely watched and managed with some intense drugs. It was beyond sad to see that happen to someone so young, but her family was all happy for the time they got to spend with her.

I never thought about it that way until doing research on con articles. Palliative care and hospice are giving that patient the option to stop treatment and just be comfortable until the end of their life. I have always had a heart for hospice and will be starting a new job with hospice in a couple weeks. I am nervous for the emotional aspect of hospice but so excited to be a persons hand to hold at their most vulnerable time. I love that people have that option to make those choices for themselves and stop treatment. If you think about it when stopping treatment that leads to dying faster so in a way what is the point of the assisted suicide unless their pain is so uncontrollable and even a few weeks or months is too long to live like that. 

I really think people who work in hospice are doing incredibly important work. I think you have to have a true gift to do that kind of work. As you said, the emotional aspect of it has to be difficult. My cousin works in hospice. He is so compassionate, and I don’t know if this is even allowed or not, but he told me that one of his patients just wanted to have a few beers on his front porch with him, so he obliged. They sat outside, drank a couple of beers, and told stories. Maybe he’s not supposed to do that, but I thought that was pretty cool, personally. The man was dying, and he helped him to feel like he wasn’t for a little while. I wish you the best with the new job. I bet it changes you. I think it’s a privilege to help people in the last days of their lives. I would consider it an honor to be there for someone as they make that transition. I believe in the afterlife, so I think your job is very special – you will help people make leave this earth peacefully. I hope you will see it that way. 🙂 

Assisted suicide is necessary because it reinforces the right to liberty. Every person should have the right to decide when to end his/her life. In a context in which individuals are suffering from an illness in the terminal phase, it is not optimal to prohibit assisted suicide; it does not make sense because patients have not any probability of recovering from their illnesses. Moreover, patients are suffering inevitably and, the options they have to mitigate their pain and depression are limited. Assisted suicide has benefits over the people who utilize this resource and over their families and loved ones because it finalizes the sense of uncertainty and the economic spending they have to assume, which generates other types of direct and indirect issues that can be prevented with the legalization of assisted suicide (Emanuel, 1999). Assisted suicide is not an issue, it is a necessity to reinforce the right that people have to decide over their lives.

References

Emanuel, E. J. (1999). What Is the Great Benefit of Legalizing Euthanasia or Physican-Assisted Suicide?. Ethics, 109(3), 629-642.

I understand why some doctors may think that assisted suicide is unnecessary. The person may not be in the right state to make such an important decision. However, I do believe that in cases that the person had a non curable disease or illness and they don’t have a good quality of life then this should be an option. It is ultimately their choice I see it as similar to hospice and DNR that person is Choosing death. They just don’t want to go through the pain of waiting for it to come. 

The study I reviewed looked at recreational marijuana use and if it led to the use of opioid drug misuse. To determine this the state prescription drug utilization records were obtained for Medicaid users from eight states and Washington D.C. The study reviewed states with the legalization of marijuana to see if there was a link between recreational use of marijuana and opioid use.  The study found that with the legalization of marijuana there was some decrease in opioid use in states that had legalized medical use. This strengthens my thesis statement about the benefit of the legalization of medical marijuana.

I found this research to be reliable. It is peer-reviewed and authored by multiple researchers from prestigious accredited universities.

References

Shi, Y., Liang, D., Bao, Y., An, R., Wallace, M. S., & Grant, I. (2019,). January 1. Elsevier, 194, 13-19. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2018.09.016