The Right to Die

[Name of the Institute]The Right to Die

Thesis Statement

“The assisted suicide is not ethical in any context. Since it is not legalized by law and it is forbidden by several religions”.

Introduction

The profession of nursing has always attached great importance to ethical requirements related to their daily work, however, how to understand and give content to these activities has evolved throughout the history. Two main approaches have been developed to thematize the ethics of nursing: virtue ethics and the ethics of principles (Westrick & Dempski, 2011).

In a model modern professional, the definition and exercise of care necessarily include consideration of teamwork. Similarly, the performance of a good role player, states on one side of learning theory and practice of ethical principles that underpin the work of caring and, secondly, the assimilation of the attitudes that are required of the person who cares. In this sense the nurse has a solid technical foundation based on scientific, humanistic and ethical allow you to perform the exercise with quality and awareness training. Knowledge acquired during their training, skills and attributes to practice nursing (Janie & Rich, 2005).

The development of medical ethics in the 20th century reaffirms that the fundamental ethical and ideological problems of modern medicine throughout the world is the ratio of doctor to the life and death. In the "Geneva Declaration" (1948) proclaims: "I will maintain the highest respect for human life from the moment of conception." In the "International Code of Medical Ethics" (1949) expressed the same idea in other words: "The physician should always bear in mind the obligation to preserve human life." Later, in the "International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights" (1966), a medical maxim that defines human life as an absolute value, in fact acquired the status of universal moral and legal norms: The right to life is an inalienable right of every person. This right is protected by law. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his life (Yount, 2002).

Discussion

The Human Right to Life- Nursing Rationale

The human right to life is the highest valuable thing that belongs only to him and it applies to all stages of its existence, and is usually not questioned. However the two key stages in human life, its beginning and its end, are the subject of a very special relationship. It is in this vein should be considered ongoing disputes over the status of nascent human life and its artificial interruption, abortion (Young, 2007).

Attitude to the problem of medical abortion has been controversial since ancient times to the present day. In the Hippocratic Oath clearly stated: “ I will not give any woman an abortive pessary". On the contrary, Aristotle writes that if "a child should be born beyond the statutory number; you should have recourse to abortion before the fetus will be sensitive to life". In legal terms the operation of abortion has grown from a prohibition under penalty of death to the full legalization of today as a woman's right to dispose of their bodies function (Yount, ...