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I believe that life support should be used if necessary. When I say necessary, i mean situations like injury or someone who is still mostly functional but need help with other things. But when it is used to keep people alive who are brain dead or who want to be done with their pain, I think that is a waste of money, time, and resources.

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In my own opinion, I believe that life support as its concept is a perfectly ethical idea, to an extent. Of course if someone is dying and need help through technology, it should be used.
But what I have seen through research is that it can be overused and abused. Families who see brain dead or lost family members will hold on to long or insist that life support is necessary, only a waste of time and money for all involved.

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As you probably know, CPR is used to keep people alive in emergency situations while waiting for medics to arrive. Here is a quick tutorial to show how it keeps people alive.

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CPR Life Saving Techniques For All Age Groups

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"The distinction often is made between two issues: not starting treatment, and stopping treatment. However, there is no legal or ethical difference between withholding and withdrawing a medical treatment in agreement with a patient's wishes. If there were such a distinction in the clinical setting, a patient might decline treatment that could be helpful out of fear that once the treatment started, it could not be stopped.

It is legally and ethically appropriate to discontinue medical treatments that no longer are beneficial. It is the underlying disease--not the act of withdrawing treatment--that causes death."

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"Brain death is death.  It has nothing to do with being a coma.  It does not refer to a permanent vegetative state.  When it is pronounced using the standard tests and diagnostic procedures, a person is dead.  When a person is dead there is no longer any possibility of ‘life support’ by any technology or machine.  When a person is dead, life support has to end since regardless of what parents, judges or legislators might want to believe no physician can do anything to treat death." This is a quote from Arthur Caplan of Bioethics.net. When he says this, he is saying that when a pateinet is pronounced brain dead, they should be removed from life support.

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Park, James Leonard. "LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS (Critical Care)---How Long Should You Be Kept 'alive' by Life-supports?" LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS (Critical Care)---How Long Should You Be Kept 'alive' by Life-supports? University Of Minnesota, n.d. Web. 27 Jan. 2017.

Caplan, Arthur, Ph.D. "Bioethics.net." Bioethicsnet Blog. N.p., 25 Dec. 2013. Web. 27 Jan. 2017.

"Understanding Life Support Measures." Cleveland Clinic. The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 30 Nov. 2016. Web. 08 Feb. 2017.

Max Ehrenfreund, "Brain-dead Girl Could Be Removed from Life Support despite Family's Wishes." The Washington Post. WP Company, 30 Dec. 2013. Web. 09 Feb. 2017.

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CPR is also considered a form of life support. In hospitals, if the patient and doctor deem it necessary, they can mark the patient DNR (Do Not Resuscitate). If the the patient is dying and they aren't going to live much longer,  it will be known to not give that patient CPR when it would normally be needed

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Life support is also used for the terminally ill. This is another example of prolonging someones pain just for them to die soon anyways. It is just wasting resources and time and putting the person through more pain than necessary. It may sound harsh but it would make more sense to take them off of life support if the patient and their family wants it

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The largest uses for life support include uses for people with life threatening injuries and people in comas. This for the most part is respected and understood why life support in any way is needed, to sustain a person and help them recover. The real problem lies in the idea of life support for the brain dead. It is fairly common for somebody who is brain dead to be placed on life support. This is unethical to many due to the fact that unlike a coma or injury, brain death is irreversible, it is just simply, death. So to waste re

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http://www.bioethics.net/2013/12/death-brain-death-and-life-support/

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(1) respirators—which provide mechanical assistance with breathing.
(2) heart-lung machines—which circulate oxygenated blood (which is essential, for instance, during heart operations).
(3) drugs that can stimulate the heart or dilate arteries.
(4) intravenous fluids that can provide nutrition and hydration during periods when the patient cannot eat.
(5) feeding tubes inserted into the stomach or intestines, so the patient can be fed even when unconscious or otherwise unable to eat enough to sustain life. In the future, new life-support systems will be invented.

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Keeping a patient on life support in an intensive care unit bed costs, at a minimum, $2,000-$4,000 per day and can run much higher depending on the patient’s condition, into hundreds of thousands a year. Nurses and doctors must maintain care around the clock, warding off bed sores and other conditions that come from being confined to a hospital bed for days, months or even years.

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http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/YLY-Q14.html

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We are here to talk about how we keep people alive with life support and discuss the ethics of keeping them alive, or letting them die.