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There are many occupations that make up jobs in the healthcare system. Such jobs include physicians, medical examiners, and nurses. These three occupations are critical for the advancement of life. Most people know that these occupations help cure illnesses such as the common cold, the Flu, or the Zika virus. However, few people think about what these healthcare personnel do in an unavoidable experience that we all encounter—death.

Physicians play numerous rolls in death. One task of their job includes physician-assisted suicide, or PAS. People who participate in PAS are asking to commit suicide by using a painless method performed by a physician. Majority of the time, PAS is only used when people have an incurable disease or illness with a definite life expectancy. In this way, physicians play a role in death by acting as a Grimm Reaper—they partake in the process of catalyzing death.

Another way that physicians and nurses deal with death is the procedures that they follow when death occurs in a healthcare institution. Doctors and nurses work together to provide care for someone’s body before and after death. Both types of healthcare representatives prepare the deceased and the deceased’s family for the next step, which can include burial or cremation.

Medical examiners are also a type of medical professional. Medical examiners examine the body after death has occurred. This profession is especially important in the aspects of death because it gives insight on how to prevent future deaths by diseases. Examiners can find important details about illnesses such as congenital birth defects. These findings can expand the life expectancy, deterring death.

Medical examiners, nurses, and physicians, are professions that revolve around death. Each profession uses death to advance or deter life. Medical examiners use death to determine symptoms of deadly illnesses, while doctors and nurses prepare bodies for burial or cremation. Doctors may also provide services for physician-assisted suicide, which is an unspontaneous type of death. All three professions work correlatively to prevent death or encourage it through physician-assisted suicide.

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