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Deliverable Length:3–4 pagesAn Appalachian patient in your health care facility wishes to stop treatment for his stage 4 bone cancer.His family is adamant that he continue the treatments.There have been multiple incidents where the family have verbally abused the nursing staff for consenting to the patient's wishes.You decide to convene the ethics committee.Discuss this in a paper of 3–4 pages, including the following:Using the ethical decision-making frameworks of your choice, how will you lead this committee?Who would you include in the committee?Review the following Web resource for more information:Decision Making FrameworksReferencesClowes, C. (n.d.).A critical examination of ethical decision making models.Retrieved from http://aux.zicklin.baruch.cuny.edu/critical/html2/8062clowes.htmlSME. (n.d.).Decision making frameworks. Retrieved from http://www.sme.ie/articles/business_ethics/decision_making_frameworks.pdfAPA 6th ed Format with in text citations

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Introduction 
Euthanasia is an activity of where in a person, mostly a physician end the life of a person who 
is in acute pain and suffering. The laws regarding the euthanasia are different in various 
countries because of the different principals and ethical standards. Various categories of 
euthanasia are: involuntary and voluntary. Voluntary euthanasia is regarded as legal in some 
countries and U.S. states while Non-voluntary euthanasia is considered illegal in all countries 
and is regarded as murder. Euthanasia continues to be the one of the most researched area of 
the present day medical ethics.
Ethical Dilemma 
As a physician witnessing the case wherein the patient is asking to end his life with the help 
of medical interference to put an end to his life, it is imperative to solve this ethical dilemma 
so that the patient and his family members can make a best decision for all the stakeholders 
related to the case. The problem can be best resolved by asking five questions which are 
suggested by the Rion’s five stage model (1990). Rion illustrates how analysis can be used in 
forming this 'integrated judgment' by use of his decision-making framework, the five stages 
of which are:
1 Why is this bothering me? 
The right to end one’s life cannot be granted just on the basis of the suffering as the suffering 
is a relative term and used as an excuse by most of people who commit suicide. Thus, death 
should never be facilitated by any other individual including oneself because committing 
suicide is not a fundamental liberty. The dignity and mysterious nature of human life which is 
unpredictable should be taken into consideration before the decision to end someone’s life is 
taken.

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