Assisted Suicide Should Be Legal

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 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

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.

To fully understand the issue at hand, one must understand the various forms of euthanasia. The Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary: Tenth Edition defines euthanasia as “the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals…in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy.” Euthanasia can be either passive or active. Passive euthanasia occurs when a patient is relieved of medical treatment and is allowed to die naturally. Active euthanasia occurs when either a physician or a family member actively takes the life of the patient, perhaps through lethal injection, and eliminates a natural death process. Many people commonly use the word “euthanasia” to refer to assisted suicide. Essentially, assisted suicide is a form of active euthanasia in that a person, usually a physician, aids in the suicide of a patient.

The recent case of a woman, Brittany Maynard, who chose to end her life before she experienced the severe side effects of Glioblastoma has sparked a debate on whether Physician Assisted Suicide should be made legal in all fifty states. Some people believe that Physician Assisted Suicide violates the Hippocratic Oath, gives a doctor too much power, or leaves vulnerable groups at risk. Others feel that Physician Assisted Suicide will benefit the terminally ill. Physician Assisted Suicide will benefit the terminally ill by offering the option to cease their pain and suffering with a painless medication prescribed by a physician when they feel their quality of life has diminished, and is no longer worth living. With this option available, people can exercise their rights over their body and life, die with a sense of dignity, make organs available to patients who need them if it were legal, and it removes the physician from the death directly leaving it to be a personal exit to one’s life.

Physician-assisted suicide has been a topic discussed since the beginning of modern medicine. Any topic that involves someone’s life and decisions that they may make about it usually becomes controversial. Physician-assisted suicide is an end of life option where people can voluntarily request medicine to end their life (Death With Dignity). There are many different opinions about the topic, and some people believe that it should be illegal because of the fact that it’s suicide. Also, many people’s religious or spiritual beliefs inhibit them from supporting this idea. Physician-Assisted Suicide should be legal because people should have control over their lives, there are many requirements to meet, and making it illegal has not stopped people from practicing it.

Physician-assisted suicide is when a terminally ill patient requested a physician to facilitate the patient death by providing the necessary lethal dose of a drug which enables the patient to perform the life-ending act. Provided that, Physician assisted suicide has been part of the debate about improving end-of-life care for terminally ill patients for decades. As a result, physician assisted suicide may be viewed morally wrong by some people, but morally permissible by another.

Imagine being born premature, and while being nothing more than a defenseless baby in the hospital unit, an infection emerges in your bowel lining. As a result of the infection you live most of your life in the hospital with an exception of several months. Imagine only being able to spend two birthdays and two Christmases in your home. Imagine being 20 and having undergone over 300 painful surgeries. Can you imagine yourself being 13 and talking about dying from how much pain you have been through? Danny Bond can. After suffering almost every day of his life, he attempted to commit suicide, but his mom resuscitated him both times. Therefore, Danny decided to starve himself to end his suffering once and for all (Grimminck). People such as Danny, cancer, and ALS patients, who are battling terminal illnesses, deserve the right to choose when enough is enough. Physician assisted suicide should be legalized because it’s the compassionate thing to do, people deserve autonomy and because it is a better alternative.

Everyone seems have their own opinion on whether making own decisions is right or not. Is assisted suicide the right thing to do or is it not? Assisted suicide/ euthanasia is when the patient want to die on their own will throughout the process of being medicated with a drug prescribed from a doctor. Assisted suicide is only legal in Washington, Oregon, California, Vermont, and Montana (Procon.org) . There are restrictions to assisted suicide too, to be part in assisted suicide you must be 18 or older, and must have a terminal illness, and or have 6 months or less to live. Although people think it’s not the right thing to do because of a religious point of view or just because they don’t agree that it's okay. Some think that assisted suicide

The debate on legalizing assisted suicide is an issue across the globe. It has brought countries to contemplate on the legalities of the matter in their respective legislative branches of government. Assisted suicide is just simply a matter of assessing one's will to perform such act with the permission of the subject or the patient in such way his will be done. The debate now focuses on either the act shall be legalized or not.

In conclusion, based on the evidence supporting people's suffering, dignity, and organs can be saved.it's easy to see that assisted suicide should be legal. Just think of all the pain those people go through, and they don't even really get to live their

There have has been many different discussions about assisted suicide that have have arisen recently; whether someone should have the choice of committing suicide with the help of someone else, such as a hospital and whether it should be legal. However, people who are against the thought of terminally ill patients having the choice of committing suicide with the help of their doctor said it goes against the fundamental duty as human to keep people alive. The flip side is that we are keeping people alive but are making them suffer. Is it fair to make the determination that they have to suffer? Though Karen Sanders suggest in the article that assisted suicide, “alleviates suffering and better protects people,” than to keep terminally ill patients

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.

Often people who have not appropriately considered this issue claim that human dignity should be preserved and protected because no one has the right to kill another, and death is will of God. Their opinion sound very plausible. However, the assisted suicide, sometimes called the “right to die,” should be legalized in certain cases. Patients who are terminally ill should be allowed to

Assisted suicide is suicide committed with the aid of another person sometimes a physician. It is the process of deliberately ending a person’s life to relieve suffering. Assisted suicide is clearly defined as a form of ‘euthanasia in which a person wishes to commit