NURSING CRITIQUE ON LAW: LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF PALLIATION: RE-EVALUATING RONALD LINDSAY'S EVALUATION OF THE OREGON DEATH WITH DIGNITY ACT BY DURANTE (2009) The objective of this study is to critique the work of Durante (2009) entitled "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Palliation: Re-Evaluating Ronald Lindsay's Evaluation of the Oregon Death with Dignity Act." The Death with Dignity Act was enacted by the state of Oregon on October 27, 1997. This act enables patients who are terminally ill to end their lives by use of self-administration of medications that are lethal in nature and that the physician has prescribed to the patient for this express purpose. The work of Durante (2009) examines the claims of Lindsay on this subject and reports that the evaluation of the experience of Oregon with physician-assisted suicide of Ronald Lindsay is "a much needed counterpart to moral speculation." (p. 28) According to Durante, if the assumptions, both implicit and explicit on which Lindsay grounded his argument are flawed the result is the undermining of Lindsay's conclusions. The claims of Lindsay include that "Respect for autonomy is one reason to supporting legalization of assistance in dying" it is noted that Lindsay states that it is "not a sufficient reason." (Durante, 2009, p. 28) Durante (2009) reports that the argument of Lindsay is such that is "highly contingent upon a deep-seated concern for patient's autonomy." (p. 28) Lindsay reports...
28) The claims of Lindsay are that the "quality of palliative care has improved rather than diminished in Oregon as a result of the legalization of PAS." (p. 28) However, there is a failure on the part of Lindsay to make provision of a model or to describe what comprises "adequate palliative care." (Durante, 2009, p. 29) Durante holds that palliative terminal care must consider that for many individuals who are seeking PAS "death becomes a means of, or at least a substitute for, palliation and other means of palliative care that have failed or are not accessible." (2009, p. 29) Durante reports that palliative terminal sedation (PTS) is contentious but is an option and that those who oppose PAS do not necessarily oppose PTS and that PTS "may be argued to be a necessary component of -- although only as a last resort option -- an 'adequate' palliative care program." (Durante, 2009, p. 29)
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