Describe how spirituality and / or religion may have been a factor in the actions and outcomes.

Step 1: Select Your Ethical Dilemma

PLEASE NOTE: You CANNOT select the same ethical dilemma you wrote of in the Module 12 assignment or any that we discussed in the classroom. Doing so could result in a 0 for the assignment.

Option 1: Select one of these ethical dilemmas. There is a lot of information on the internet about each of them.
PICK ONE OF THESE TOPICS:
Withholding/Withdrawing Life Support – Terri Schiavo, was in a persistent vegetative state when her life-sustaining treatment was withdrawn (2005)
Withdrawing Life Support/Resource Allocation – Jahi McMath, was a teen who was declared brain dead but remained on life support for almost 5 years (2013)
Physician Assisted Suicide – Brittany Maynard, had terminal brain cancer and chose when/how she would end her own life (2014)
Right to Die – Dan Crews, had been a quadriplegic since childhood and wanted his ventilator removed to allow for death to come (2011)
Religion/Culture/Rights of Minor and Parental Rights – Daniel Houser, was a teen with Hodgkin’s Disease who refused life-sustaining chemotherapy for religious reasons (2009)
Withdrawing Life Support/Rights of the Unborn Child – Marlise Munoz, was a brain-dead woman kept on life support because of her unborn child (2013)

Step 2: Create Your PowerPoint Presentation

Your PowerPoint Presentation will be on your selected case and you will need to address:

EACH component/step of the Framework for Ethical Decision Making as outlined on the Worksheet for Ethical Decision Making Framework; refer to these document (Course Modules/Materials >>Supporting Documents).
Spirituality and Religion. Describe how spirituality and / or religion may have been a factor in the actions and outcomes.
At a minimum, you will want the following topics included (some may be more than 1 slide):

Cover slide with project title and your name
Individual and situation (introduction a)
Ethical dilemma (introduction b)
Step 1: Ethical issues
Step 2: Facts
Steps 3 and 4: Option 1 and Arguments for/against
Steps 3 and 4: Option 2 and Arguments for/against
Step 4a: Ethical Theory and Why
Step 5: Decision and Why
Step 6: Assess outcome
Impact of Spirituality and / or Religion
References; at least 3 scholarly references
Other:

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