Реферат: How Far Do You Think Whose Life

it about the individual vs. authority. ??????????????? The doctors are there to serve

people. They have trained, and gained knowledge and skill, in order to help

patients. ?Patients need knowledge to make good decisions?. This says that the

patients choose what to do themselves and the doctors are there to carry it out

or advise. If the patient is unquestionably sane this probably does happen, but

when the patient?s mental health can be called into question the doctor uses

his/her own judgement. They are not distant authority figures, but real people

who have lives just like everyone else. They are not perfect. The fact they

work with and for their patients, or at least try to, says that they are not

against Ken, just trying to help him in a different way. this may be the wrong

way as far as he is concerned but they are trying. This is born out by the

judge?s statement at the end ?I am convinced all parties acted in good faith.?

It basically sums up everything that the play was about.

The

play is about Ken fighting against authority, nearly as much as it is about

whether euthanasia or suicide is morally acceptable. The fact I could find few

argument to support the opposite arguments shows this. However, my main one,

that he has many allies who work for the hospital, lessens the certainty of

that view, as does the fact that doctors are there to help people and they are

not allowed to go against a sane patients wishes. There are no black and

whites, only grey. All parties concerned were only doing what they thought was

best for Ken. Where they differed is that the hospital team refused to accept

that Ken deserved to have a say in his future, or lack of one. They also

thought that living is always better than dying, and again I think that is

something that has to be considered for each situation. Whatever the motive,

and however well meaning this was, the play is about one man fighting for his

right to end a ?shadow of a life?, against an authority who cannot conscion him

dying.