Do People Have The Right To Kill Themselves?

I feel it is a person’s choice and it is different than suicide. It has to be well thought out and talked about with a team of people involved including physicians, psychologists, and family. I also think it is based more on

I do agree with the idea of the rights to commit suicide for only people in great pain and terminal illness. If that person and their family agree on the fact that euthanasia or other medical process can help that person leave peacefully then it is definitely worth it. I have never been through any loss of people close to me, but I can imagine how I will feel if I was in that situation. I wouldn’t want to see them in pain or suffer on their last days of life. So under the circumstance of these two situation, euthanasia/suicide is acceptable to me. Other than that, I don’t support suicide in any other ways or for what reasons. Lots of people may argue that even if the person wanted to kill themselves we shouldn’t help them. We should talk them out of it and stay by their side. Sometimes that method might work because that proves a support system for the person. Of course that is a better result than suicide, but what if talking doesn’t work, I don’t think anyone likes to be in pain or wait for death to knock on their door. Sometimes it's better to let the person decide, try convincing them, if it still doesn’t work let them make their own decision, maybe it’s better that

as a felony crime. But recently there have been court cases taken up in two

Two main points of controversy about this are religious beliefs and medical ethics. Many people feel when the law allows someone who is competent and terminally ill the choice of assisted suicide, they are setting up the choice for people who are not competent to just assume they want to die. For example, a 24-year-old woman in Belgium was experiencing depression and was granted the right to die when experiencing no life-threatening illness. The doctor in this example sates, “she has been a patient of psychiatric institution since the age of 21 and says she previously tried to kill herself on several occasions. The health professionals in Belgium will give her a lethal injection due to her experiencing suicidal thoughts her whole life” (MSN News). In this case as the professional doctor, you could be unsure what to do. Clearly the 24-year-old woman is facing pain through the depression. If the medical personal does not do what she wishes by forcing the lethal injection then I am sure she will just kill herself. “Belgium passed a law to legalize euthanasia in 2002, the law states that Belgian doctors can help patients to end their lives if they freely express a wish to die because they are suffering from intractable and unbearable pain” (MSN News). The Medical ethics on Assisted Suicide could be viewed as the doctor helping their patient by avoiding all the pain and suffering vs. trying to make a

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

Though one is not a supporter of euthanasia and/or assisted suicide, circumstances can easily influence the choice to undertake. However, one should not advocate or condone assisted suicide just because a patient feels they should die. The option of assisted suicide (Physician Assisted Suicide) should be left for terminally ill patients, whose death is expected to be slow and painful both to the patient and family around them.

Suicide is legal in all Australian states and territories. If you want to kill yourself, you can do so. No one has any right to stop you, unless they can show adequate proof of insanity. Various popular books are available which even give details of reliable methods in which to end ones life. If a person says he/she wishes to die, and is not immobilised by disease, yet continues to remain alive, he/she is clearly not serious about wishing to die, but has expressed a false wish. However, some people who wish to commit suicide are incapacitated to such an extent that they would be unable to commit suicide without assistance. Killing a person in these circumstances can be described as "voluntary euthanasia".

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.

For the sake of uniformity we will look at the federal government in this matter, as well as solely focusing on people who are terminally ill and wish to die by their own means, in a dignified manner. As I stated, the Supreme Court upheld in 1997 that assisted suicide ought to be criminalized, as well as asserting that people do not have a “right to die” (The Kevorkian Verdict). With that said, despite a few state outliers, if an individual is in a circumstance where they wish to die, they have no other option than to take the matter into their own hands. Methods of suicide contain firearm, strangulation or suffocation, falling or jumping, and poisoning or drug overdoses, all ranging in effectiveness (NSPL).

Anyone with a terminal illness should get the option of assisted suicide. Millions of innocent people suffer every day from physical pain such as heart failure, chronic lung problems, kidney disease, AIDS, cancer and other serious fatal problems [Hospice Report Card]. When a person with a near death illness knows when their life is over they will no longer enjoy the simple things in their life and the slightest trickle of sweat will send them to there knees in excruciating pain. Assisted suicide is legal in Oregon, Washington, and Montana. People from all over the world travel to Switzerland to be assisted with suicide. Residents in Australia make there own suicide pills by having illegal drugs shipped from Mexico to form a super pill

In the case of assisted suicide killing another is a justifiable act. According to the article.“What’s so difficult about the right to die”, “Assisted suicide is not a private decision only, it’s about the worth of people’s lives and whether we think those lives are worth living”(Wente). This evidence is important because it is not someone else’s choice if someone wants to die or if they should die, if they feel as if their life is not worth living, why force them to live if they don’t want to . Another example is “it says that people with ‘grievous and irremediable’ suffering are entitled to assisted death”(Wente). If someone is suffering we shouldn’t make them keep suffering in constant pain.

However, I am a firm believer in Christ, so my main opinion is based on the religion aspect. I mainly believe that assisted suicide is not the right thing for anyone to be involved in. There is only one person who should have a say when someone’s time to go is and that man in Jesus Christ. In most cases, a person who wants someone to help them commit suicide is because he is terminally ill; he feels as if there is no cure for whatever he is going through, which is true for most cases. Nevertheless, no one has the ability to know what the future holds. I think patients should live their life until their body and heart say otherwise. Scientist could come up with a cure for the patient’s illness, but the patient would not have known because he decided to end their life too

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.

Does a suffering person have the right to end their own life? That is the main debate behind assisted suicide. Assisted suicide is a very secret, but surprisingly available option for suffering people. The documentary The Suicide Plan focuses on the people who believe assisted suicide should be legal. The documentary takes us inside the hidden world of assisted suicide, as seen through the eyes of the people considering it. Assisted suicide is only legal for terminally ill patients in Oregon and Washington. Individuals in other states who consider assisted suicide are generally suffering terminal patients who want the same opportunity. There are many organizations that people can reach out to for information about the requirements, the step-by-step process, and what to expect. Patients understand that they will be killing themselves. The organizations have very specific guidelines for their clients. Organizations are not physically involved in the suicide, they do not provide any drugs or materials, and very carefully confirm the individual’s understanding.

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.