Persuasive Essay On Assisted Suicide

In the ever changing role and dynamic atmosphere that healthcare provides, unique challenges and opportunities constantly arise which are a multi-faceted labyrinth of ethical and moral dilemma. One of the most contested and widely debated topics to be found in the healthcare workplace today is the subject of Assisted Suicide. Altering a person’s course of death into a process driven role, rather than the client’s final life event, creates a myriad of ethical and moral dilemmas.

Physician assisted suicide is an act of compassion that respects patient’s choice and fulfills an obligation of non-abandonment (Sulmasy & Mueller, 2017). Death is the inevitable end of life of a person or organism. As humans, we live the best way we can and with medicine and technology, humans can live a quality and healthy life-style. However, there is no human who is supernaturally immune from diseases and accidents.

Places all around the world have legalized assisted suicide and it has proven successful in every place. Canada, Japan, Germany, Switzerland the USA, including California, Washington, Oregon, Vermont, and Montana, all these places have experienced and legalized assisted suicide, and every place has had an overwhelming increase in the happiness and welfare of its overall population. Canadian justices, while explaining their change in heart over assisted suicide said, “What has changed...is that other countries, including the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Colombia and Switzerland, plus four American states, have shown that assisted dying can be well regulated” (Last Rights, 2016, para. 4). This in itself expresses that because of the success other countries have already received, the implementation

If someone wants to end their life peacefully instead of dying painfully at the hands of a deadly disease they should be allowed to do that. Every year thousands of people suffer and die at the crippling hands of extremely painful, deadly diseases. Terminally ill patients should have the right to die with the assistance of a doctor.

Recently, several states have modeled Oregon’s Right to Die Laws and have added laws that allow assisted suicide, and many more are considering some form of legislation to legalize assisted suicide and euthanasia. With modern technology, advances have been made in medicine that allow people to live longer. As a consequence, there are far more terminally ill patients than ever before. Assisted suicide has become a viable alternative for some of these end of life patients. Doctors and other care-givers should not be allowed to assist terminally ill patients end their lives prematurely. Laws that legalize assisted suicide for terminally ill patients should be overturned because they allow a doctor to choose who lives and who dies and have other, unintended consequences that outweigh any benefits.

In recent years, the matter of assisted suicide for terminal patients has been the topic of many moral and medical debates. Opinions vary greatly, and stand on wholly opposite spectrums. Some people say that a patient should be allowed to decide when they die. However, others believe that morals and medicinal ethics dominate over a patient's desire. My opinion is that is that no medical institution should be allowed to provide assisted suicide, even if it’s for terminally ill patients. There are many reason why I think so.

Death has a finality to it that gives even the most cynical person a reason to pause. The possibility of death is always present, the elephant in the room. Prior to the twentieth century, before the leaps and bounds of modern medical care, people worried about the possibility of dying more often. Childhood diseases could strike and take a beloved child away at any moment, affecting two or more homes in the same community. Today children are inoculated against most of the deadly childhood diseases of the past. The average life span for a person born in 1900 was 50 years, in comparison to at least 83 years today (“Living Longer,” 2011). Society has changed the way life is lived, now it is time to change the way society dies. The practice of assisted suicide has been around as long as there have been compassionate health care givers caring for terminally ill patients. Assisted suicide is not and should not be the first option for a patient, but it should be an option: safe, monitored and legal. It is vital that assisted suicide becomes a legal option and available to all terminally ill patients. Public support, legal precedence, and effectiveness of fatal treatments, support the petition to ensure that assisted suicide becomes law across the U.S.

People have been known to go to any extent to end their suffering. Many have even contemplated, and successfully managed to commit suicide rather than continue living with their illness. One such example can be seen in the biography by John Hoffsess. He established ‘The right to die society’ and helped eight people die between 1999 and 2001. Suicide is a painful and demoralizing way to die, and the victims leave behind loved ones questioning themselves forever. Hofsess set up an underground society that allowed innovative non-medical options to die. He talks about how people suffering (those such as Al Purdy) who were members would die surrounded by loved ones than in a strange hospital bed. He used methods such as an ‘exit bag’ or lethal

Suicide is the act and the process of causing one’s own death with full knowledge and with the intention of doing so. The act has been considered as a crime in many countries and fully punishable by law to the suicide attempts. However, time has changed and many countries and particularly the USA are now in the process of changing the act to enable those suffering from severe and untreatable diseases to be in a position to choose death instead (Stump). The decision by the government to pass a legislation on assisted suicide has been welcomed by many, and as it stands it is the right way to go.

Every day on TV, in movies, and in music there is a phrase that has been asked a lot, “Who wants to live forever?” This is such a common question and many people say “no,” these people want to live out a shorter life than eternity. Some may ask “why?” Well here is the reason. When someone gets terminally ill and death is unavoidable, but allows a short duration life in suffering, they don’t want to sit there suffering they want to move onward to their eternity. When someone is no longer feeling fit to live we should allow them to leave this world.

Did you know the word "euthanasia" comes straight out of the Greek word "EU", meaning goodly or well and "Thanatos", meaning death, put together you get the phrase the good death. So, why is that some states have euthanasia outlawed? Why do the doctors practice if they are trained to save lives? How does the family feel when the procedure is over? So would you rather die from a lethal disease and have doctors prolong your life or would you like to live your life for the time you have and end it on your own terms?

The definition of euthanasia from the Oxford Dictionary is: “The painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease or is in an incurable coma.” Consider the words “suffering,” “painful,” “irreversible” and “incurable.” These words describe a patients terrible conditions and prospects. Euthanasia is known as “mercy killing” for a reason, it is the most, humane, moral and logical form of treatment available to patients that have no hope in fully recovering. If you had to choose between lying in bed dying a slow and painful death, or dying a quick painless death at the time you choose so that you can be surrounded by all your loved ones, which would you choose? With euthanasia,

We believe that patients should not be denied access to a death with dignity. The right to die should be respected just as much as the right to live. It is within an adult’s right to deny any treatment that can prolong their life when death is unbearable and/or near. State legislations established end-of-life legislations to help diminish the dilemma between legal and ethical stances on dying with dignity. There are specific requirements that a patient must meet before they are allowed access to euthanasia or a death with dignity.

Euthanasia, also called assisted suicide, is the painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable disease or an irreversible coma. This is a highly controversial topic. The reason it is so controversial is because people argue whether it is morally right to let a person with an incurable disease suffer in pain until they die; or is it better to kill them so they don't suffer. It is also compared to the death penalty because you're killing another person legally.

Living with an incurable disease such as ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) can have a detrimental effect on someone’s life and others around them. Euthanasia allows them to die with their dignity still intact. Also, if it is not legal in one’s country, there are other ways they can go through with the procedure. In the end, it should rightfully be the choice of the patient, as it is their own body. So instead of waiting painfully and blind for the day an incurable disease takes your life, euthanasia allows patients to leave on their own and peaceful terms.