Assisted Suicide Illegal

“Physician-assisted suicide is legal in five U.S. states,” (Physician-Assisted Suicide Fast Facts 1). These states include: Oregon, Vermont, Washington, and California. Although, the people wanting a physician-assisting in their death have to present terminal illness, and in most cases like in Montana, a court decides if you are taking an appropriate action. Assisted suicide is a controversial issue that is surprisingly a common use.

Assisted suicide is the suicide of a terminally- ill patient, achieved by using a prescribed drug from a doctor for that specific purpose. It is legal in only six states in the United States of America including: Oregon, Montana, Washington, Colorado, Vermont, and California. Countries such as Germany, Japan, and Switzerland have legalized assisted suicide in past years. It has been disputed for many years and continues to be a controversial issue whether physicians should be authorized to end an individual’s life with their prescription and if this should be done legally.

People with incurable diseases are living in excruciating pain up until the day they die. Assisted suicide, though it sounds dreadful, can put an end to the suffering. Terminally ill patients should get the option to “die with dignity.” It is their individual right! For the common good, I think assisted suicide should be legal in all fifty states. Otherwise individuals will be suffering for years on end, knowing that there is

An ongoing national concern is assisted suicide. Should it be legal or illegal? Assisted suicide is defined as the death of a patient due to suffering caused by an incurable disease. They end their life by taking lethal amounts of drugs provided by a doctor. (Oxford University Press 2015).In America, people have rights, but does the government have the authority to decide personal choices for them? This is a very realistic topic discussed among the nation’s citizens. The following are considered extreme viewpoints of this topic: humanistic, capitalistic, conservative, and liberal. There are currently only five states that practice the death with dignity law, those being Oregon, Washington, Vermont, New Mexico, and Montana. Some are legalized

Assisted suicide or any type of suicide is a serious matter and should not be taken lightly. A criterion in some states where assisted suicide is legal are strictly followed. “Eligibility is managed so that patients do not suffer from a terminal illness may not participate”. In the article Physician-Assisted Suicide in Oregon: A Medical Perspective, authors Herbert Hendin and Kathleen Foley evaluate Oregon’s Death and Dignity act legalized in 1997. When discussing the criteria, Hendin and Foley say that these safeguards include “presenting patients with the option for palliative care; ensuring that patients are competent to produce end-of-life decisions for themselves; limiting the procedure to patients who are terminally ill; ensuring the voluntaries of the request; obtaining a second opinion on the case; requiring the request to be persistent; encouraging the involvement of the next of kin; and requiring physicians to inform OPHD of all cases in which they have written a prescription for assisted suicide” (Sullivan). This action of assisted suicide is for terminally ill patients who choose to be in control of his or her life and death and end their

Assisted suicide, whose life is it? In reality it is the person’s life, and if they are suffering from a terminal illness they should get to choose whether or not they want to suffer. One very aggressive form of a terminal illness is the Glioblastoma Multiforme. This type of brain tumor is more common than a person may think it is also very deadly (Markert). Who is to say a person can’t end their terminal illness, pain, and suffering? They are just like every other human being who wants to die with dignity.

Assisted Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. There are many ethical dilemmas surrounding assisted suicide. Although there is no way to truly say whether assisted suicide is a good or bad thing. I can say that it would be ethically wrong to legalize it. How, it can open the floodgates for anyone to medically end their life, we are not meant to “pay God”, and it can jeopardize the ethical and moral duties of healthcare professionals. When someone thinks of the word “suicide” most think of a person killing him or herself to escape their problems, except assisted suicide isn’t quite the same. According to Batten “Assisted suicide is the means by which an individual choose to end his or her life via the help of another person, who may offer medical assistance” (Batten 398). Death isn’t something a health care professional should be allowed to assist with but rather guide the patient back to a healthier state.

Is assisted suicide an act of good or bad, an act of right or wrong? A very controversial topic in today’s talk. Assisted suicide, also known as another individual helping or aiding another individual to end his or her life. A more proper definition is: the suicide of a patient suffering from an incurable disease done by taking lethal drugs. This is very familiar to occur in the health field. Even though it is not legal all around the world, licensed doctors have the permission to medically end an ills patient’s life. Some states want to further enact on this movement. The Humane and Dignified Death Act, is what will allow a physician to end the life of a terminally ill patient only on the request of the patient and the patient is to have valid

If assisted suicide becomes legal in the United States then it would be legalizing murder. The question of assisted suicide being “mercy killing” has been a debatable topic for a while but there is no question that it is murder. There have been countless examples of loved ones killing loved ones because they are doing it out of “mercy”. In Kentucky, a man is facing murder charges for shooting his wife because he claimed it was “mercy killing”. His wife was in a battle with aggressive breast cancer and was reportedly suffering immense pain (Hanafin). It is difficult to think that a husband can shoot his own wife just because she was in pain. Also, there were two gunshot wounds. If a man really wanted to end his wife’s suffering then he would

There are many ways a person can assist and commit suicide, though it’s usually done with lethal medication. (“Oregon Department of Human Services”) While many physicians are against assisted suicide, there is the

The thought of assisted suicide being legal in only five states out of fifty in the U.S (Procon.org) is unbelieveable. The rate of unassisted and assisted suicide rate has increased (Kheriaty). Assisted suicide has increased rate but at a very slow pace, in 1998 there was only 24 lethal prescriptions given. In 2014 only 155 lethal prescriptions were given and from those 155 people only 105 died from the medication and the rest just died by themselves (Haberman). Not many people have taken the chance of being part of assisted suicide throughout the course of 26

Helping someone end their suffering is not a crime. It is currently not considered a crime in 3 states: Oregon, Washington and Vermont. So why is it illegal in most states? Assisted suicide is not as harsh and cruel as it sounds like. There are regulations that need to be followed and there is a long tough process before you make your final decision. Assisted suicide needs to become legal in more states.

In conclusion, assisted suicide is supported by the right of people to make decision about their life provided the patient is in the right mental state to do it.

A man had cancer, he had to suffer the pain for one more week. He had the choice to have assisted suicide, or live longer, but with so much pain. The choice was final, he decided to get assisted suicide, so he does not have to deal/ suffer from his pain any longer. Assisted suicide is legal in some places but not all. People have the choice to die earlier or not, depending of where/ what place they are at. Some people do not want to live with incurable illness or pain for the rest of their time before they die, so some people choose to have assisted suicide. So, people that do not have the choice might have to suffer the pain of what they have. This is why assisted suicide should be legal.

In 1972, US Senate held the first national hearing on euthanasia (assisted suicided). Assisted suicide is a process in which, if a terminally ill adult chooses, a doctor will legally prescribe a lethal dose of barbiturates to end its life. Currently, there are 6 states that allow assisted suicide. Unfortunately, assisted suicide can be easily abused; therefore, the U.S. government should illegalize it in all 50 states for the protection of its citizens.