PHIL 434 Week 3 Term Paper Outline .docx

1 Week 4 Term Paper Outline Jessica Kim West Coast University PHIL 434: Medical Ethics and Issues Professor Todd Eller November 18, 2023

2 Week 2 Term Paper: Outline I. Introduction a. End of life care is for people who are in their last months or years of their life. It involves treatment, care, and support. With this particular case, we will be focusing on physician assisted suicide. II. Body Paragraph 1 – Technical aspects of your topic a. Topic Sentence: Physician assisted suicide is when a physician helps in a patient’s death by providing whatever is needed to allow the patient to participate in the life ending act. This controversial topic brings a lot of argument on how ethical this end-of-life option is. i. Supporting detail 1: This end-of-life option is legal in some states but has a set of strict regulations that need to be followed to even be considered. ii. Supporting detail 2: The Death with Dignity Act is also known as physician assisted suicide. This became legal in the states of Washington, Oregon, California, Montana, Colorado, New Mexico, Hawaii, Vermont, and Maine (Lawatsch, 2023). iii. Supporting detail 3: This practice was first legalized by Oregon through the Death with Dignity Act in 1997 (Hetzler, 2019). After that first state

3 had it passed, it started a ripple effect and other jurisdictions also legalized it. III. Body Paragraph 2 – Description of public policy debates surrounding your topic a. Transition: Physician assisted suicide is a controversial topic that raises many issues. b. Topic Sentence: Oregon was the first state to pass the Death with Dignity Act in 1997. 65% of American supported physician-assisted dying which led to the legalization. i. Supporting detail 1: People who choose to end their lives this way, are not considered to have died by suicide if they carefully follow the steps of the law (UCLA Health, 2023). Part taking in this act is voluntary for both the patient and physician. ii. Supporting detail 2: As the end-of-life act is legal in some states, there are certain requirements needed in order to go through with the process. To receive the aid-in-dying drug, a person must: be 18 years or older and a resident in the legalized state, have a terminal disease that results in death within 6 months, have the capacity to make medical decisions, and have the physical ability to take and ingest the drug (UCLA Health, 2023). iii. Supporting detail 3: To this day, the legalization of physician assisted suicide continues to evolve. Approximately one-sixth of the U.S.

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