Assisted Suicide Should Not Be A Killer

Has anyone ever heard of the term Assisted suicide? The term assisted suicide “ is suicide committed with the aid of another person, who is usually a physician. It usually is called physician assisted suicide because a doctor is providing information on committing suicide with lethal doses of drugs (Assisted). There are many people with a terminal illness considering assisted suicide. Assisted Suicide is legal in five states which is Oregon, Vermont, Washington, California, and Montana. Oregon, Vermont, Washington, and California legalizes assisted suicide through a law. Montana is the only state that requires a court ruling for assisted suicide. Assisted suicide varies on a method in each state. It usually is prescribed by a doctor in the state where the patient is living. Assisted suicide has been active from 1997 up through 2016 .An interesting fact is Assisted suicide has failed more times then it has succeeded (Physician). Physician Assistant Suicide should not be legal because of the requirements to perform it and the consequences of it

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.

wrote how he was a doctor and was one of the first notable physicians to aid in suicide for his patients that wanted it. In 1989 Kevorkian aided in Janet Adkins suicide, his first patient to do so. After many years of helping his patients in this way, Kevorkian got in trouble in 1998 when he got caught administering a lethal injection to Thomas York, a patient who was suffering from Lou Gehrig’s disease and wanted to die. Kevorkian got caught because he videotaped himself preforming the act because he wanted it to be broadcasted on 60 Minutes. Dr. Kevorkian was sentenced to 10-25 years in prison because of that event. He was considered an instrument of death who is a threat to the public (203-204). Some people see Kevorkian as a hero, but in reality, his practice of physician-assisted suicide is immensely wrong. The use of physicians to end one’s life is morally wrong and should not be legalized.

Physician-assisted suicide occurs when a physician facilitates a patient’s death by providing the necessary means and/or information to enable the patient to perform the life-ending act. For example, the physician provides sleeping pills and information about the lethal dose, while aware that the patient may commit suicide (Pullicino, n.d). On the other side, natural death occurs when a patient dies from the consequences of old age or disease. The patient 's death may be at least partly due to surgery, to a treatment or to a medication (or to their complications), that is given in an appropriate dose and for an appropriate indication, with the intent of treating a disease or relieving pain (Pullicino, n.d).

been available in parts of Switzerland since 1942 (Darr, 2007), however assisted suicide was not

The equal protection argument for allowing assisted suicide was a challenge against New York law that only let people who were ill and who decided to sustain from life support were allowed to do so, thus that infringed on the equal protection clause right of people who were also ill and who decided to rush to their death but by the administering of a drug were not allowed to do so. According to equal protection laws the state won’t deny anyone within the jurisdiction equal protection of the laws. The latter’s right of equal protection was infringed upon and by putting the equal protection clause into effect it would allow for assisted suicide.

Dr. Jack Kevorkian used physician-assisted suicide as a means to help terminally ill patients die with dignity. He used a homemade suicide machine to deliver carbon monoxide and lethal drugs to more than 130 patients. According to the article entitled “Paging Dr. Death” I discovered Caryn James stated, “Rather than having a patient self-administer a suicidal dose of drugs, he gives the lethal injection to a man

Physician assisted suicide should be morally permissible. Patients who are in constant suffering and pain have the right to end their misery at their own discretion. This paper will explore my thesis, open the floor to counter arguments, explain my objections to the counter arguments, and finally end with my conclusion. I agree with Brock when he states that the two ethical values, self-determination and individual well-being, are the focal points for the argument of the ethical permissibility of voluntary active euthanasia (or physician assisted suicide). These two values are what drives the acceptability of physician assisted suicide because it is the patients who choose their treatment options and how they want to be medically treated. Patients are physically and emotionally aware when they are dying and in severe pain, therefore they can make the decision to end the suffering through the option of physician assisted suicide.

Jack Kevorkian, the assisted suicide advocate died at the age of 83 on June 3, 2011. Supporters say he was a compassionate caregiver who paid a severe penalty for helping chronically ill patients end their suffering. Critics, however, say Kevorkian’s compassion clouded his ethical physician responsibility. He first captured the public’s attention in 1990 when he put a needle in the arm of Janet Atkins. Although this needle did end her life, his compassion, considered clouded by critics, spared her from the painful progression of her Alzheimer’s disease (Hulett, 2011). On the day of his death, Lessenberry stated “It will be very interesting 50 years from now to see whether Kevorkian is regarded by history as this sort of a bizarre crank or whether he'll be regarded as a modern medical pioneer (as cited in Hulett 2011).

This year there will be hundreds of terminally ill people that die with the help of assisted suicide. And the question is should we control it or let people decide at their own risk how they want their last days to be? In this paper we will look at what the common law ,model penal code ,and state codes and statutes have to say. We will also look at some controversial but substantial cases that make assisted suicide legal in some states. And why Wisconsin and many other states believe assisted suicide should still be illegal.

Dr.Jack Kevorkian was A Famous physician who helped numerous patients to commit suicide. According to the article entitled “Assisted suicide right to die proponents split” I learned that “Mr. Kevorkian became national when he first helped 54-year old Janet Adkins kill herself with his hand made death machine through lethal injection” (Tim Devaney,1)

Dr. Jack Kevorkian, a retired doctor, assists terminally ill patients in Committing suicide. Dr. Kevorkian strongly believes that physicians should be able to help terminally ill adults end their lives With self-respect, and his goal is to make assisted Suicide legal.

42% of Americans have had a “friend” or “relative” suffer from a fatal, terminal illness or coma in the last “five years.” More than half of these patients and 23% of the “general public” could not obtain a life-sustaining treatment so, 84% of people approve that a terminally ill patient should be able to choose how and when they die, (NHDD). Assisted suicide - this is defined as the attempt to take one’s life with the intentional assistance of another person, usually a physician, (Duhaime). In five U.S states, physician-assisted suicide is legal, (ProCon). There are certain criteria that terminally ill patients must obtain in order to have the assisted suicide approved. For example, you must be eighteen or older, diagnosed with a terminal disease that will end your life within six months maximum, etc, (Physician Assisted Suicide). There are many benefits from assisted suicide, and it should be legalized in more states.

Assisted Suicide should be made legal because many people suffer from diseases that aren’t always curable, it doesn 't make sense to let them go through all that pain and some families have financial struggles paying for their medical bill. This controversial debate is whether or not assisted suicide or mercy killing should be legal, whether or not doctors should be allowed to help patients kill themselves or give guidance on how to. People argue that assisted suicide should be considered legal, “In a spirit of compassion for all, this manifesto proclaims that every competent adult has the incontestable right to humankind’s ultimate civil and personal liberty -- the right to die in a manner and at a time of their own choosing. Whereas

I would without a shadow of a doubt lend my support after viewing the video, in the event that one of my relatives had a terminal condition and wanted to end his or her life by assisted suicide. Likewise, I would support them in light of the fact that, I love them and if this is what they want to do to end their pain and suffering then I will support them any way I can. My constraints in permitting this activity would be to advise them to seek medical assistance, but I would not support them if they decided to shoot themselves in the head. Furthermore, I am totally against using firearms because I feel that it is not right under any circumstances unless you are defending yourself.