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Essay Archive - Let Me Decide: The Right To Die
Let Me Decide: The Right To Die
I recently attended a lecture by Dr. William Molloy, co-author of “Let Me Decide”, a health care directive guide. He instructed the audience to participate in a short exercise where they would have to make an immediate decision about an imaginary patient’s medical procedure. The decisions would be made on behalf of the patient with the audience making decisions as the patient’s doctor, their nurse, their distant relative, their child, and lastly, as the patient in question. It was not surprising to see how the degree of heroic measures lesse....
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