Persuasive Essay On Mercy And Health

We are culturally ingrained from an early age that life is precious and each day is a gift. Life should not be squandered but preserved.  We are encouraged to live with a purpose, cherish our loved ones and live life to its fullest. But what if life becomes too physically painful to endure, often experienced by many terminally ill patients suffering an incurable disease, or a chronically ill elderly person who lacks the ability to thrive?  For forty-five day’s I watched my chronically ill mother languish away in a hospice care facility. The experience was emotionally and financially draining, and I began questioning whether a person should have the right to choose when and how to end their life. In the United States, assisted dying is a widely debated and passionate issue. Opponents argue preserving life, regardless of how much a person is suffering, is an ethical and moral responsibility, determined only by a higher power.  At the other end of the spectrum are those who support a person’s right to end their life with dignity at a time of their choosing.   Wouldn’t my mother’s suffering been greatly reduced if her doctor was legally and ethically permitted to administer a lethal cocktail of drugs to end her life quickly and painlessly? Wouldn’t the prevailing memory of my mother see her in a better light instead of helplessly watching her undignified death? To deny terminal and chronically ill people the freedom to end their

The word suicide gives many people negative feelings and is a socially taboo subject. However, suicide might be beneficial to terminally ill patients. Physician- assisted suicide has been one of the most controversial modern topics. Many wonder if it is morally correct to put a terminally ill patient out of their misery. Physicians should be able to meet the requests of their terminally ill patients. Unfortunately, a physician can be doing more harm by keeping someone alive instead of letting them die peacefully. For example, an assisted suicide can bring comfort to patients. These patients are in excruciating pain and will eventually perish. The government should not be involved in such a personal decision. A physician- assisted suicide comes with many benefits for the patient. If a person is terminally ill and wants a physician assisted suicide, then they should receive one.

Go to Chicago, New York, Paris or Madrid, on every street corner you see a person less advantaged, poor, and desperate. Then go in a store, see others carrying expensive bags, swiping their credit card left and right. We live in a world of extreme poverty, balance seems nonexistent. Poverty can result in broken homes and in turn, broken lives. In the book Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, Walter Mcmillian’s adult life, Trina Garnett’s childhood and Antonio Nuñez’s domestic life show that poverty was the cause of their incarceration and determined the success of their lives.

Who dictates how you live your life? How does one define life and when that life should end? If you become terminally ill, would you like the choice to choose how your life ends? In the United States, assisted suicide, is a highly-debated issue. On one side, there are many in support of allowing a person the right to end their life with dignity at the time of their choosing. While others believe, it is a moral right to sustain life and leave a person’s exit from this world to a higher power. The two opposing viewpoints have both compassionate reasons and disadvantages; nevertheless, a person’s human rights as an individual are the most important aspect to uphold.

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.

The right to die has been a topic of many debates. People are either strongly opposed to the act, saying things like “In no situation is suicide the right thing to do,” while others argue the exact opposite. No compromises are made as an unstoppable force meets an immovable object, but this is life or death. The answer cannot be as simple as yes or no. We all go through difficulties in our lives, some even struggle with depression at times, but unlike those who are depressed or going through a rough patch, there are those who are doomed to deal with physical pain the rest of their lives. How could we deprive them the choice of a painless death, when letting them die slowly on a hospital bed is the only other option? Physician assisted suicide for those who are terminally ill should be legalized in America, because physician assisted suicide saves those who are hurting from living the rest of their lives in agony.

Physician-assisted suicide is a very controversial topic in the medical field. It is a topic that has been debated over for years. Webster’s dictionary defines this terms as, “suicide by a patient facilitated by means (as a drug prescription) or by information (as an indication of a lethal dosage) provided by a physician aware of the patient’s intent” (Merriam-Webster). In other words, it is a way that when a patient is ill, they can commit suicide with the help of a physician. This practice is legal in some states in the United States and in many countries around the world. This topic is so controversial because people disagree on whether it is ethical to help someone end another person’s life. There are many people that advocate this and there are also many people that disagree with helping someone commit suicide.

Physician assisted suicide is a crime almost everywhere, by one statute or another. In countries where assisted suicide is legal, there are guidelines, such as mandatory written request, administration by physicians only, and mandatory reporting of suicide, to prevent any abuse, however, they are often not enforced, or violated. Currently Washington, Oregon, Vermont, New Mexico, and Montana are the only states in the U.S that have legalized assisted suicide. Those who oppose assisted suicide argue that the legalization of it may have unintended consequences, that are not confined to only those states citizens. A person who is terminally ill, disabled, or elderly, may look to assisted suicide as an only resort, rather than a last resort, which it was initially intended to be. Assisted suicide should be abolished throughout the United States.

In the preamble of the Declaration of Independence, it is stated that we all have the right to life, but does that also mean we also have the right to die? Under the Death with Dignity Act (assisted suicide), this is possible. assisted suicide is a process in which, if a terminally ill adult chooses, a doctor will legally prescribe a lethal dose of barbiturates to end its life. Unfortunately, because of morality issues, the terminally ill only have the right to assisted suicides in a few U.S. states. The U.S. government should allow terminally ill adults the right to choose assisted suicides in all 50 states because the right to choose should be our own.

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.

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

According to the United States Department of Health and Human Services, there are currently around 117,000 people with their lives currently on hold, hoping and praying for an organ transplant that will save their lives. Not only are those patients waiting on the transplant list lives impacted, but also the lives of the family and friends of those 117,000 men, women, and children who are also forced to patiently sit and wait, in hopes that their loved one is lucky enough to receive their vital organ.

Whether it be hundreds of years ago or this present day, suffering has been seen as a major theme in numerous pieces of art and works of literature. Suffering is defined in the Oxford dictionary as “the state of undergoing pain, distress or hardship”. With every victory there is loss, and with every loss, there is suffering. Suffering itself is a very volatile theme as it can easily be interpreted as a loss of innocence or faith, the portrayal of someone's rise and fall or even just to help the audience or readers to connect emotionally to the piece of work. This volatility allows an artist, writer or director to portray suffering as they wish to best establish a connection with their audience. Oftentimes, suffering is misinterpreted as pain. Pain is a physical ache such as the ache in your muscles or the stabbing back pain, whereas suffering is the emotional experience which may or may not be connected to pain. Though the two go hand in hand, suffering tends to leave a larger dent in a person's mind. A person may be laughing at all times, but as Robin Williams, a famous comedian and actor once said: “I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy”. What this means is that someone who is smiling may be suffering the most. Suffering, thus, becomes a volatile theme that can be applied in many different aspects of artwork and literature and leave a mark on the audience.