Reaction Paper On Suicide

P3:2 “Assisted Suicide: Make Assisted Suicide Legal for the Terminally Ill In America,” a document written in English 1010 addresses legal and ethical issues of legalizing assisted suicide for terminally ill patients and posits the question “assisted suicide mercy or murder.” Terminally ill patients should have the right to choose how and when they die. There are three reasons patients should have the right to choose death; the first, some patients experience uncontrollable pain; the second, loss of quality of life; the third, palliative care requires the direct intervention of a physician, but assisted suicide allows a physician to write a prescription and the patient chooses when they die. Although some patients have positive results with

I finally started my first year of college at Miami Dade College in January 2014. During my adaptation to the new educational system, my Abnormal Psychology class professor mentioned how important it would be to participate in an Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training. I consider this to be very useful in today’s society where many individuals suffer from depression.

Have you ever heard a grown man cry; a cry so loud that you can hear and feel the pain within his voice? No, well it happens daily, here in the United States. There are thousands of people that are going through so much suffering that pain killers are like putting a band aid of a bullet wound. As hours pass the wound is getting bigger and the band aids are helping less and less. Most of these people just want a release, but even professionals cannot grant that request.

After researching assisted suicide I have more questions than when I started. The definition of assisted suicide is very factual: suicide facilitated by another person, especially a physician, who organized the logistics of the suicide, as by providing the necessary quantities of a poison (The definition of assisted suicide 2016). After much research I have learned that assisted suicide is an option one has to make depending on their moral standards, will to live, and how they want to die rather than a factual process one can follow.

The debate of whether assisted suicide should be lawful, is still of some concern today. Despite the growing advances and discoveries in medicine, there are still illnesses in which scientists, physicians, and nurses have yet to cure or solve. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cancer along with heart disease continues to be the leading cause of death in America (Leading Cause of Death, 2014). The prolonged suffering and pain that precedes a person’s inevitable death, is often seen with cancer and other deadly diseases. But the question is should assisted suicide be against the law?

States and how it may be beneficial. Assisted Suicide is the assistance of ending one’s life by the help of a medical professional. Having assisted suicide approved all throughout the United

There are various opinions on assisted suicide, in some cases it could be merciful, in others it is not really justified. While writing this paper I have found research that supports both views. My personal opinion is right down the middle of both. I’m torn between the moral aspects of taking a life to be wrong. However, I can also agree, if someone is genuinely ready to leave behind the pain and suffering from their illness, they should have the right to choose so.

Imagine you’re a parent. You have two young children who don’t understand what the word cancer means. You just got the news that you have stage four cancer and you have a short agonizing road ahead of you. Instead of getting to decide when you want to wrap up your life and die, you don’t have a choice. You’ll spend the last minutes of your life in crucial pain hooked up to IVs, and those will be the last memories your children will have of you. Is that what you want? Terminally ill patients should have a choice on when they feel comfortable dying, it shouldn’t be a law that decides something this major for other people.

There was once a man who had brain cancer. The man was not getting better he was getting worried and worried every day. One day he just gave up, he had so much pain he just want to die. So he asks the nurse to kill and the nurse did what she was told and kill the man. Assisted suicide is when people want to die because they are in pain. Assisted suicide should be illegal because it is killing people to put them out of their pain. It should be illegal because people want to die and people should not want to die. People deserve to have a long life.

Assisted suicide has been a strongly debated subject for over a decade now. By definition from the Webster dictionary assisted suicide is “suicide with help from another person (such as a doctor) to end suffering from severe physical illness.” There are only five states in the US where case voting or legislation legally passed “Death with Dignity” laws; these states are Oregon, Washington, Vermont, Montana, and New Mexico (Barone, 2014). The question if it should be legalized is often combined with if assisted suicide is “right.” Assisted suicide should be legalized if a patient is diagnosed with a terminal illness with 6 months or less to live, because it not only is a safe choice for an individual because many know they cannot survive the terminal illness but they also wish to not suffer through the end of their life.

Day to day, teens suffer from peer pressure, problem from home, and stress from academics. Despise their status in the environment, majority of high school students refrain from acknowledging the presence of their reality. The problem in most situations in that students feel shut in, trapped in a never ending misery. How do they cope? What are their ways of dealing? Most students live in denial. Others have friends to confide in. For the devastating part, most students are not as open to these ideas and it leaves them with this alternative: suicide. Suicide is the third leading cause in teens the ages 14 to 19 within rural underserved areas. Suicidal ideation (SI), suicidal thoughts, were surveyed in over 12 high schools and it was found that in the past year, thoughts of (SI) were not shared with peers or even adults in the pursuit of receiving help or support (Pisani, 2012). Because a student spends most of their day at school, it is ideal for schools to provide realistic opportunities and school-based programs to assist with the suicide among the youth. The Surviving the Teens Suicide Prevention and Depression Awareness Program designed four 50 minute session or each high school student. This presented information in regards to factual information about depression, suicidal warning signs, suicidal risk factors and myths associated with suicide (King, 2010). The program provide coping strategies for everyday life, referral sources if feeling suicidal, and how to recognize

In the crisis/safety plan, the school counselor’s role is significant. If a crisis/traumatic event occur which effects the school community, the student meet with the school counselor, school psychologist or social worker to discuss feelings. Assemblies are held to discuss the crisis plan and letters are sent home to families informing them of the occurrence. Also, calls are made to invite neighborhood school counselors to assist in grief counseling if deemed necessary. Students who exhibit suicide warning sign or students inflicting self-harm, the school counselor interviews the student to determine whether they have the means and plan. 911 is activated if necessary and the counselor composes a referral for ongoing therapy. The counselor follows up with the student and family to monitor progress. Because the counselor is included in the crisis intervention team, the counselor and

Teen suicide is something that is endless, it will never stop but if everyone was educated on it, it could help prevent deaths. I think with people provided with statistics and further information can help avoid adolescent suicide attempts. I think most teen suicide cases could be prevent if we knew the signs to look for and the ways to stop it. I believe parents would feel safer if they knew knowledge on the issue and how to handle it. The intended audiences for this essay is parents or friends of suicidal teens. This essay is important because, as mentioned earlier, we need to be educated on suicide to end tons of tragedies. It is also important to be aware of the warning signs to help prevent. This essay is relevant because teen suicide is a war that happens daily, and will continue to happen, until we take control of the situation and do something to stop it. If family members were informed of the cause and symptoms leading up to the attempt of suicide, then there is less likely that teenagers would try and commit

Three people in my life have completed suicide; my uncle, my mom’s late fiance, and my step brother on my dad’s side, within four years of each other. I’ve witnessed each parental figure in my life become compromised by grief and the inevitable pain accompanying it, and I’ve seen the way depression can plague someone so deeply, even without the ending of suicide. The prevalence and growing numbers of deaths by suicide calls for a revised manner of education on all mental illnesses and the preventative measures one can take to reduce risk. Initially, when I heard of the Suicide Prevention Week Keynote event with Jamie Tworkowski (founder of ‘To Write Love On Her Arms’) I was thrilled. Hosting such an event on a college campus, presenting to a population greatly affected by mental illness, is demonstrative of the steps that should be taken toward raising awareness. Any opportunity for a comprehensive view on mental health and its significance is one to be taken advantage of. However, as the night proceeded, I did take note of several things that would improve the layout of any future events, as well as further deepen an individual’s comprehension of mental illness.

Suicide is currently the 10th leading cause of death in the United States (Suicide and Self-Inflicted Injury, 2017). On average, 121 Americans complete suicide each day (CDC Fatal Injuries Report 2015, 2015). The American people are living longer with advances to medical care and technology, yet suicide rates continue to rise. According to the CDC, suicide rates have increased by 24% from the year 1999 to 2014 (Curtain, Warner & Hedegaard, 2016). Consequently, the suicide epidemic continues to grow with no clear path to prevention. This literature review was conducted using the Robert Morris University Library online databases. Databases accessed include PubMed…………., from the years 2000 to 2017. Overall, most the articles obtained are