In the case of Donald R. Cowart, also known to us as Dax, we find that he was in a horrible accident in July 1973. During a visit of a tract of land that he and his father were looking into purchasing, a gas leak that had cased the area to be filled with propane gas, and had cased their car to explode after Dax attempted to start it. That explosion caused both Dax and his father to be serverly burned, and his father died shortly after the accident. That day changed Donalds life and his families life drastically for the years to come.
After the incident Dax was placed in the ICU burn unit, despite the fact that he did not want any medical treatment. Before Dax even was taken to the hospital he asked a farmer that was close by to get him a shotgun so that he could kill himself, due to the pain he was enduring and also he felt he was most likely injured so bad that his was of life as he knew it had changed, and he would never be the same person. Throughout the time of his medical care he had asked everyday to be able to stop the treatment, or be sent home to die, but everyday his personal request, be it a sound or unsound decision was denied and ignored, leaving him to suffer another day.
Now the question at hand is who put the doctors and nurses, and his mother in charge of making the choice that Dax needed to live instead of die which was his request? From a personal point of view if I was seriously injured and the treatment was painful for me everyday with little to no time away from the pain, and if I knew my way of life would never be even romotly the same, I would want to die and I would want my parents and my doctors to allow that being it was my personal request. Also from the point of view from a doctor since that is what I am currently in school for, I can say that from the medical stand point yes it is a doctors job to try to save every life they can, that is if they want to be saved. If I was Dax doctor I wouldn't like to see him just give up even...