I was led to this topic primarily through my family's personal experiences, when my youngest sister was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. ... I wanted to discover more about how one can provide help and comfort to sick and dying children and their families. It is immediately apparent that the social woker's role is a crucial one - providing information and comfort to families and children as they attempt to make sense of a new and frightening world. ... Stevenson (1995) argues that art therapy allows children to informally express their emotions, without having to talk about them ...

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Victor finds himself rejecting his obvious mate, Elizabeth, in pursuit of his deep seeded desire for his mother as his only partner in love and sexual pleasure; his father and Elizabeth are competition for his mother's love. ... He had to work hard to hold onto is mother's love. Victor felt he was second fiddle to Elizabeth, "every one loved Elizabeth," "my more than sister, since till death she was to be mine only" (44). ... Victor wants to cure disease and raise the dead: perhaps, he wants to reunite Elizabeth with her parents and regain his own mother's love. ... Of cours...

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"Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy! ...

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They want their loved ones to remember them as they were not as they have become. ... Burnell (1993), comes from the need of the patient to avoid or end the unbearable pain during a terminal illness, to have a "better" quality of life, or to prevent unnecessary financial burden on his family. ... Kass (1991) in his article about death with dignity, says: " The deaths we most admire are those of people who, knowing that they are dying, face the fact frontally and act accordingly: They set their affairs in order; they arrange what could be final meetings with their loved ones, and yet, with ...

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Another consideration is whether, by taking your life before the illness runs its course, you are depriving yourself and your family and friends of a valuable period of good life, love and companionship. ... In his book Dying With Dignity, Derek Humphry says: "Helping another to die in carefully considered circumstances is part of good medicine and also demonstrates a caring society that offers euthanasia to hopelessly sick persons as an act of love"(91). ... People that have been independent their entire lives do not want to be a burden to anybody, especially to those that love them and care ...

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They also do not want to burden themselves or their family with these problems and feel that assisted suicide is something that will help their situation. ... This is normally where family members would make the decision for the person, which is often looked at as murder. ... The family just decides that they have nothing left to live for. ... Many individuals don't know how to ask for help, and so they turn to death and hope that their friends and family will support them. ... There is no need to end life now, live it out and enjoy the remainder of your time with your loved ones. ...

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Lying in her hospital bed, in a morphine-induced coma, Esther was well aware of the loving family that surrounded her. ... A major concern is that if physician-assisted suicide is legalized it would be abused by family as a way to dispose of undesirable members, or by depressed patients who may have a curable illness but who simply no longer wish to live. ... Not only does hospice provide the terminally ill patient with the medication necessary to ease pain and suffering during their final days, but it also goes a long way in helping to ease the mental anguish of the patient's family by ...

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"The Right to Die" movement is influenced by cases that look at the rights of a person in America to die the way he or she wishes, regardless of loved ones and caregivers' desires to protect that person. ... Harris felt like she was a burden on her family. ... When it comes to situations where feeding tubes are keeping a patient alive, friends and family members typically state that the patient would rather not be kept alive through a feeding tube, so why shouldn't his or her desires be met? ...

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Usually, family members decide whether the patient should live or die, not the patient himself. ... Can you imagine one of your loved ones in these positions? ... They give us the liberty to decide our job, our family, our religion, and even our sex preference. ...

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Neither man is concerned with family life nor with romantic relationships with women, such things have no place in the epic hero's life. ... Enkidu becomes the protector and hero subservient to Gilgamesh, and Gilgamesh gains a friend whom he loves like a brother. ... So both epics share a similarly semi-divine central hero who is preeminent in battle who has a subservient comrade in arms whom he respects and loves dearly. ...

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