... Illness .......................................p.1 II.Mental Illness in Depth A.Historical Background of Mental Illness .....................................p.4 B.Cost of Mental Illness in Society ..............................................p.6 C.Stigma of Mental Illness in Society ...........................................p.9 D.Treatment of Mental Illness as a Social Problem ..........................p.11 III.Immediate Future of the Area of Mental Illness A.What is most likely to occur within the next decade and ... soothed, drenched, restrained, thrown into institutions, and isolat...

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... that doctors are for no reasons disposed to kill them; and have no inclinations to ask whether a patient is worth caring for or treating, rather than asking what care or treatment might benefit the patient. The practice of Euthanasia however, disposes doctor to kill certain of their patients and also inculcates a disposition to think of some patients as not having worthwhile ... suicide entirely. Society will begin to look at suicide as a good rather than bad, humane rather than inhumane, legal rather than illegal. It will also put doctors in a cost-interest position which will cause th...

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... depression or a false sense of worthlessness which may affect their judgment. Their decision-making may equally be affected by confusion, dementia or troublesome symptoms that could be relieved with appropriate treatment. Patients who on admission say 'let me die' usually after effective symptom relief are most grateful that their request was not acceded to. Terminally ill patients also adapt to a level ... forced to live against their will, they refer to not complying with a patient's request for death. At some point the attempts to postpone death by any means are unwise and inhumane. ...

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