Assisted Suicide

Second Main Point: There are currently drugs in late stages of testing that will do more to help cure the disease than current treatment

This quote confirms to the readers that the reasons why choosing the beneficial choices are vital. Whether you make a choice to a difficult path or a tranquil path in a life, the desired choice is the finest thing you need in life. The choice can be justifying foolish beliefs, making bad decisions, or performing hurtful acts, but we will all learn from our mistakes and prevent them from happening again in the future. As this quote is very short, it allows the reader to take this vital lesson and apply it into our lives.

	Living is about making choices. The choices people make shape their lives for better or worse. Even the decision not to choose has its effects, often not wanted. But the individual who chooses to make positive choices and to act accordingly is more likely to see his or her life reflect his or her beliefs and desires. Usually the individual who chooses to take action is also willing to face the risks and obstacles that such choices involve.

In addition, todays medicine holds hope to several millions on cures to the deadliest diseases that were not curable in the past.

at first glance it may seem possible for the human race to be fully cured of all disease, the

Assisted suicide is when you give someone else permission like a physician, to kill you. Assisted suicide is legal in at least six states (Tolle, 1996) and there is lots of people who wanted to die because the disease they might have at the moment is just too much for them. If a patient that wanted to die the they would either talk to a physician or their doctor and give the doctor permission to just kill the patient. Assisted suicide can only happen when your medication is not working and the pain from the sickness you have is just abdominale. There was a case that was about how a man who was going through chemotherapy he didn't want to go through it so he talked to his doctor about assisted suicide. They decided to

The improvement of medicine over the course of the human successes gave great convenience to the people of today. Science has cured and prevented many illnesses from occurring and is on its way to cure some of the most dreadful and harmful illnesses. As the world modernizes due to the industrialization, so does the ways of medicine. Some cures are approached by chance, some, through intense, scientific measures.

sit in pain due to their sicknesses. Should these people have to go through all

It cannot be established with ease whether the decision to have physician-assisted suicide is voluntary or is influenced by others. Even physicians are not able to establish the time of death and guarantee whether there is a likelihood of remission through the use of advanced treatments. This means that conducting physician-assisted suicide would translate into numerous illegal deaths that could have been prevented (Boudreau & Somerville, 2013). Critics argue that legalizing physician-assisted suicides could appear like encouraging violation of the law and promoting the lack of trust between patients and physicians. Moreover, the practice would cause deterioration in medical care in addition to causing victimization of the people who are susceptible in this society (Diekstra, 2008). Apart from these weaknesses, critics echo that there are other areas where physician-assisted suicide could be

Assisted Suicide/ Euthanasia is wrong and should not be allowed to be a law. Families shouldn’t have to go through that pain of their family member killing themselves because they hate the pain they are going through. The pain will go away with time and there is medicine for any kind of pain. There are some people who believe that there should be a choice for people who are in pain and they should have that choice because they want what they think is best for themselves. However, there are people who take Assisted Suicide/ Euthanasia to the extreme and people who “have pain” use it and they use it for the wrong reason. Many people don’t think this is a necessary reason for killing yourself. Studies show that there is a great amount of people who suffer from pain or depression that commit suicide(Why Assisted Suicide). Dr. Eli Robbins found that 47% of those committing suicide were diagnosed with schizophrenic panic disorders and

What is physician-assisted suicide? “Suicide is the act of taking one's own life. In assisted suicide, the means to end a patient’s life is provided to the patient (i.e. medication or a weapon) with knowledge of the patient's intention” (American Nurses Association). Physician-assisted suicide is known by many names such as death with dignity, right to die, and of course, euthanasia. Euthanasia is a much more in-depth term concerning the patient and the type of suicide.

Imagine laying in a hospital bed living everyday in extreme pain with no hope of getting better. This scenario explains what many people go through everyday, which is a living with a terminal illness. M. Lee, a science historian, and Alexander Stingl a sociologist, define terminal illness as “an illness from which the patient is not expected to recover even with treatment. As the illness progresses death is inevitable” (1). There are not many options for the terminally ill besides dying a slow and painful death, but assisted suicide could be best option for these patients. Assisted suicide is “any case in which a doctor gives a patient (usually someone with a terminal illness) the means to carry out their own suicide by using a lethal dose of medication” (Lee and Stingl 1). Some feel that assisted suicide is unnecessary because it is too great of a controversy and will only cause problems in society. However, assisted suicide should be legal in the United States as long as there are strict regulations to accompany it.

Assisted suicide is a topic that has ignited a severe debate due to the controversy that surrounds its implementation. Assisted suicide occurs when a patients expresses their intention to die and request a physician to assist them in the process. Some countries like Oregon, Canada, and Belgium have legalized the process terming it as an alternative to prolonged suffering for patients who are bound to die. Unlike euthanasia where a physician administers the process, assisted suicide requires that the patient voluntarily initiates and executes the process. Although there exists concession such a process is important to assist patients die without much suffering, there has emerged criticism on its risk of abuse and as an expression of medical

When an individual is dying of a disease or illness and death is forthcoming, that a person should have the option that allows for a painless and quick alternative to endless prolonged days, weeks, or even months of suffering. And by legalizing assisted suicide, the individual would be provided with the alternative decision to no longer have suffer the excruciating pain due to the humiliation and the inadequate medical services at the loss of their individual dignity as their bodies turn against them. Although the decision is personal and is up to the individual, which politics, religion and the law should have no place, and the individual who is suffering from imminent death should have the choice to this world as peaceful and with as much dignity as possible. Assisted suicide/euthanasia has an issue since the 5th century and still is a controversial debate today. The ancient Greeks and Romans believed that an individual should have a choice in choosing whether or not to die as long as it was within reasonable rights. Some physicians back then would have a supply of poison for their patients who were terminally ill and wanted to die a quick death.

Every year there are new advancements in the medical world, in which people want to find a way to cure or treat certain illnesses. The advancement is so