amu lives with deep rooted colon cancer that is took care of by the nursing team in the ogy department of a general hospital in Addis Ababa, Black Lion Hospital. Habtamu diagnosed with colon cancer seven years ago but refused medical and surgical treatment - time. He chose to seek alternative treatment and did not follow up with the urologist hat seven year period. After several diagnostic tests over a period it was discovered that incer had metastasized to his bones, it had spread locally to his lymph nodes and the ry tumor was invading the bladder and partially obstructing the left kidney. Habtamu everal admissions over a two month period for various reasons. On the last admission was told that he may only have less than two months to live after oscopy showed further extensive growth of the tumor, it was determined that any r surgical medical intervention would not be appropriate in this case and that ative care regimen was the next step. At this point the patient reported to the health eam that he had resigned himself to the fact that he was going to die. Habtamu pulled the author's colleagues aside and confided to the nurse that he planned to kill himself at is was a secret that the nurse was not to tell anyone. Does the decision made by the t is moral or immoral? Why? If you were in the place of nurse what do you do?
