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Analyze a Case in: Assisted Suicide (Bouvia v. Superior Court)

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The topic is ASSISTED SUICIDE - a health care issue with controversial ethical and legal implications that was at the center of a high visibility case in the public domain.

(There is no time frame during which the case must have occurred; however, the case must be analyzed in the context of laws and policies that existed at the time of the case in addition to current laws and policies.)

Analyze the ethics of the case from each end of the ethical spectrum (ultraconservative to ultraliberal) from the perspective of the following stakeholders:
* Patient,
* Patient's immediate family or guardians
* The hospital or health care facility

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Using Bouvia v. Superior Court as the example, the response analyses a court case on assisted suicide.

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The case that I will discuss is Bouvia v. Superior Court, which was a precedent setting case that reaffirmed a patient's right to refuse medical force feeding and choose to die using "assisted suicide" in regard to the refusal of food resulting in the death of the patient. The case involved a plaintiff who was suffering from cerebral palsy as well as arthritis. Her body began to fail as a result of the cerebral palsy, which left her unable to utilize her limbs and with the desire to want to end her life by refusing to eat and she chose to do this while living at a government funded medical facility that helped care for her while she endured her chronic and incurable disease. She chose to refuse to eat, which resulted in the medical personnel within the government funded public hospital force feeding the patient who was even held down by many people during this time if she chose to bite through her feeding tubes.

To stop what she considered to be assault and a violation of her constitutional rights, she filed an injunction against this treatment to have the tubes that were inserted in ...

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