Assisted Suicide Should Be Managed

Assisted suicide is also known as physician-assisted suicide because the physician assists the patient. Assisted suicide is suicide committed by a patient who is suffering from a disease, by taking the lethal drugs provided by a doctor for the purpose of committing suicide. When assisted suicide takes place it is the patient who ends his/her life not the physician. Before assisted suicide a physician provides an individual with information, guidance and means to take his or her own life with the intention that they be used for this purpose. Assisted suicide and euthanasia are different due do a big factor of what happens during them.

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

Assisted suicide is defined as a physician providing a patient the means to take his or her own life, usually through medicine. Washington, Vermont, Montana, and New Mexico has passed the laws to have the right to die with dignity. Those states based their decision on the fact that it minimizes the pressure to cut health costs. It has been stated assisted suicide is the cheapest thing that a person with an illness can do. These states claim that this law will help to prevent abuse. The bill allows physicians to prescribe medication to terminally ill patients who want to speed up the process to dying.

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.

The thoughts of assisted suicide are very mixed. Some people believe that it is a great way to put terminally-ill patients out of the their pain and suffering. They see it as a way for a person to die with dignity after suffering from a painful disease. Others think it is beyond morally wrong for a doctor to intentionally end a patient’s life. They feel that a doctor should not have unnecessary deaths riding, on their shoulders the rest of their career. Assisted suicide goes way beyond the beliefs of medicine and is morally wrong in so many ways.

Matthew Paris explains in his article “Soon We Will Accept That Useless Lives Should End,” published in the Spectator, that dying is not a desire for the patients with a terminal illness. Terminally ill patients end their life because they did not receive pleasure from the life that they had. Pleasure was taken away in their lives when the pain and suffering took over. Patients who are labeled with a terminal illness lose their quality of life quick. There are many cases in which patients would much rather choose an assisted death over living in pain. In Brittany Maynard’s article, she describes the suffering that she endured in her battle with brain cancer. Even though Brittany’s cancer was labeled terminal, she still had many surgeries. When given her prognosis of six months, she knew her quality of life would rapidly diminish. She went through with physician assisted suicide for many reasons, one of them being that she did not want to suffer anymore. The same article displays a perfect reasoning as to how physician assisted suicide ends suffering for the patient. Brittany Maynard chose physician assisted suicide to escape the pain and suffering that she would soon face. Having full brain radiation would leave her scalp with first-degree burns. Even if Brittany chose hospice care, the tumor developing in her brain would eat away at her mind and she

Brittany Maynard was given six months to live after being diagnosed with the deadliest form of brain cancer; she had recently just turned 29. To make matters worse, doctors had told her she would suffer from the tumor in a slow and painful manner before succumbing to death. Maynard decided she would die on November 1, a few days after her husband’s birthday under physician-assisted suicide. Unfortunately, she had to relocate from California, where her friends and family lived, to Oregon in order to fall under the “Die With Dignity” act. According to euthanasia.procon.org, only four states in the whole country have legalized assisted suicide. Unfortunately, there are many like Maynard, who have to relocate and leave their home or go through a long and strenuous court battle to receive this treatment plant. This is due to the disapproval of physician-assisted suicide.

For those people who believe that physician-assisted suicide should be their choice, they feel it should be legalized because: they don't want to go through the suffering caused by the terminal illness, they fear the loss of independence, becoming a burden to their family and/or friends, and they also fear dying alone.

Brittany Maynard is an advocate for the legalization of physician-assisted suicide. She is a part of the end-of-life choice organization, Compassion and Choices. Brittany was a 29 year old, recently married woman who was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. Brittany was told she only had six months to live. Upon finding out this news, she had multiple surgeries, however, she realized there were no options that could save her. She knew she could try different radiation treatments, but she stated, “The hair on my scalp would be singed off. My scalp would be left covered with first-degree burns. My quality of life,

The process of assisted suicide, or physician-assisted death, is a hotly debated topic that still remains at the forefront of many national discussions today. Assisted suicide can be described as the suicide of patient by a physician-prescribed dose of legal drugs. The reason that this topic is so widely debated is that it infringes on several moral and religious values that many people in the United States have. But, regardless of the way that people feel, a person’s right to live is guaranteed to them in the United States Constitution, and this should extend to the right to end their own life as well. The reasons that assisted suicide should be legalized in all states is because it can ease not only the suffering of the individual, but the financial burden on the family that is supporting him/her. Regardless of opposing claims, assisted suicide should be an option for all terminally ill patients.

The main points to argue in favor of physician assisted suicide are: the alleviation of the patients’ pain, the fact that active euthanasia is consented from the patients and it is their personal choice, the patients can die with dignity, the predetermined death will lessen healthcare costs for the family, and the physician is able to move on and help other patients in need.

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.

Physician Assisted suicide is a widely debated topic, and like any controversial subject, there are many opinions towards it. There are people and groups who strongly believe that Physician Assisted suicide should not be legal and that it is unethical to end one’s life before their time has come. In addition to that, there are people and groups who strongly advocate for Physician Assisted suicide, saying that keeps people’s dignity intact and allows people to die on their own

If you were in a hospital lying on your deathbed, would you want to spend your last moments with your family, or your last moments with a strange doctor giving you an “end of life” shot? In this essay I will tell you why assisted suicide should not be legal. Assisted suicide can cause a lot of legal problems, and cause the family of the patient to not like or not trust their doctor. This is a current problem in the United States, along with many other countries such as The Netherlands and Switzerland. In my opinion, assisted suicide should not be legal.

In the United States today, there is a considerable amount of debate of whether or not physician-assisted suicide should be legalized. Many oppose physician-assisted suicide because they view it to be morally and ethically wrong. Similarly, many support the legalization of physician-assisted suicide because they believe human beings have the right to determine when and how they die. Personally, I believe human beings have the right to determine when they die and that the government should not keep individuals who are in extreme pain and only have a few months to live from ending their life with dignity. Through this paper, I am going to explore the many sides of physician-assisted suicide.