PSYC 2250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Assisted Suicide, Advance Healthcare Directive, Euthanasia
Document Summary
Irreversible cessaion of all of a person"s brain funcion. Prolonged absence of spontaneous circulatory and respiratory funcions. Surgery and medicine are used to prolong life. The dying trajectory: rate of decline in funcioning that happens before death. Gradual trajectory: happens slowly over ime; allows person to resolve personal issues, make decisions about how he/she will divide belonging and property, make healthcare decisions. Will: document that states how the individual want their possessions to be distributed ater death; can be changed at any point before death; most recent version is used; Living will: document that states the medical intervenion about resuscitaion; advance direcive; can give permission for palliaive care. Durable power of atorney in health-care: designaion of who will make decisions for the individual who is no longer able to do so. Coninuing power of atorney: a person who takes care of inancial afairs for another when he/she is unable to do so for themselves.
