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can you please answer the followinv question with the first story

Dennis Lindberg had already survived more than most young people by the time he reached the age of 14, Born to drug-addicted parents, Dennis tried to ignore the needles in the toilet and his mom's pale skin and strangely constricted pupils. He was too scared to ask her if she did drugs. Throughout his childhood, Dennis moved constantly and rarely attended school, often being left with neighbors while his parents were getting high. He had the chance to make a fresh start, however, after his dad was jailed for drug possession. In an effort to save him from suffering while they got their lives back on track, Dennis's parents sent Dennis to live with his aunt and gave her guardianship of the boy. Over the next four years, Dennis flourished in his aunt's home. He began attending school regularly, made friends, and found comfort in regular meetings of the religious community to which his aunt belonged. Dennis soon expressed interest in joining the congregation and did so He participated fully in the life of the congregation, and spent many Saturdays witnessing door-to-door about the evils of drugs-the effects of which had touched him personally Then, at the age of 14, Dennis received grim news. He had leukemia and would need immediate treatment to survive. Dennis was diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), a type of cancer that affects blood or bone marrow. ALL is the most common type of leukemia in children under age 15, and doctors gave Dennis a 70% chance of full recovery if he underwent chemotherapy and repeated blood transfusions over the course of three years. In chemotherapy, patients are treated with drugs to kill the affected cells. Because bone marrow produces blood cells, chemotherapy causes a dramatic decrease in the number of blood cells the patient has. To make up for the lost blood cells, the patient is given blood transfusions. Without the transfusions, the patient will die. Dennis was prepared to begin chemotherapy immediately, but recognized that blood transfusions conflicted with his faith. Dennis's religious faith teaches that blood is sacred in God's eyes, that the soul or life is in the blood. Because of this, members of Dennis's faith believe it is wrong to eat blood or to eat any animal that has not been properly bled. Likewise, they believe blood transfusions are wrong and that if they receive blood they are breaking God's laws. Although blood transfusions are prohibited, the faith is not anti-medicine. Dennis was dear with his doctors when they began chemotherapy that he would refuse blood transfusions. He even threatened to pull out the V if they attempted to give him blood, which meant that physical force would be required, not once, but repeatedly, as Dennis received ongoing treatment. His aunt agreed with his decision, as did members of his congregation. When his biological parents found out, however, they were stunned-not members of that religion themselves, they wanted doctors to do everything possible to save their son. Since giving up custody of Dennis, his parents had completed drug treatment and were now sober. They felt they should have a say in this life or death decision. As Dennis's blood count dipped dangerously low, his doctors struggled with what they should do, and an ethics board from the hospital was engaged.

Answer 1

1.Being a person from ethics board they help in making a better decision when it comes to ethical issues. Here the utmost priority is to save the life of a boy because the culture, believes, practices,religion, etc., were born only after the birth of humans.A person in this position will try to provide a solution which shoukd outweigh the loss.

2.The factual content here is to save the life of an innocent boy who deserve to live when there is availability of medical treatment for the diagnosed disease. The chance of survival is 70% which is possible with the treatment and this should not be compromised by ones believes and practices by taking a wise decision.

3.The views and interests which are affected here are

• It is against the will of the almighty God
• It can affect ones spiritual belief and life because blood is considered to be sacred and the lives lies in it.
• Using the blood to save another life is something causing harm to one's life in form of blood received from the donor.In simple a recipient using a donor blood refers to using the life of donor by the recipient to survive.This is an act of sin and impurity committed in ones life.

4.The ethical consideration which can be used as an evidence is

• Doing this can save the life
• The boy can survive and preach the benefits of available treatment in the community which he follows and encourage others in a wise way
• Doing so is an act of respecting the parent's wish to save the life of their child.