The Pros And Cons Of Assisted Suicide

Assisted suicide is when you give someone else permission like a physician, to kill you. Assisted suicide is legal in at least six states (Tolle, 1996) and there is lots of people who wanted to die because the disease they might have at the moment is just too much for them. If a patient that wanted to die the they would either talk to a physician or their doctor and give the doctor permission to just kill the patient. Assisted suicide can only happen when your medication is not working and the pain from the sickness you have is just abdominale. There was a case that was about how a man who was going through chemotherapy he didn't want to go through it so he talked to his doctor about assisted suicide. They decided to

Opponents Against Euthanasia feel that if assisted suicide were to be legalized, life would be worth less than what it is, and the social value would be less (Bourque & Ayoub, 2009). People are also worried that the act could be abused with people just looking for profit, or saying they assisted suicide with the persons wish, yet in reality actually murdered them. Vulnerable members of society, such as

The article by Ryan. T Anderson is about Physician-assisted suicide and the problems medical professionals and families run into when prescribing this type of drug to a patient. Ryan Anderson, Ph.D., is the William E. Simon Senior Research Fellow at The Heritage Foundation, and the founder and editor of Public Discourse, the online journal of the Witherspoon Institute of Princeton, New Jersey. Physician-assisted suicide is a drug given by a doctor to assist patients to commit suicide. The patient must request the drug and must be taken by he/her self. Victoria Reggie Kennedy, a woman who protested physician assisted suicide said that the drug will be prescribe with up to one hundred capsules and a doctor should never be able to kill their patients intentionally. Which isn’t necessarily the case. Most doctors will not give a patient one hundred capsules. Kennedy argues, doctors are here to help their patients

Assisted suicide should be allowed in severe cases because there are often many cases of being severely ill. People should have the right to choose whether they want to continue with their lives or have it ended although others can argue otherwise. Patients would rather end their own lives rather than continue living in pain. It would be best if they were to get help and get it done in a place which the family will know rather than finding the body elsewhere. Many deaths occur daily regardless of assisted suicide or not and many debates going on about whether or not assisted suicide should even be an option. There is a place that separates relief from dying and killing so patients should not be considered killed with assisted suicide. Instead, they are relieved from the pain they were in. Patients do not want to suffer, they are the ones feeling all the pain in their systems, not anyone else. Assisted suicide should be an option because people choose whether they want to live or not, suicides are attempted regardless, and the bodies from suicides would

A major problem that is facing our society today is the legalization of assisted suicide or as it is also known, euthanasia. Euthanasia is the act of putting a person to death painlessly, or allowing a person to die by withholding medical treatment in cases of incurable diseases. Assisted suicide has been legalized in five out of the fifty United States and legal in over eight different countries. Euthanasia is done when a physician administers a lethal dose of pain killing medication, while assisted suicide is when the physician leaves a syringe that is filled for the patient to inject themselves when they are ready. Euthanasia has been common in the world for centuries, throughout several cultures and regions, in the twentieth century a group

How would you like to die: in a hospital bed, cold, alone, and hooked up to beeping machines; or surrounded by your family and friends in a warm, familiar home and familiar bed. This can all be possible with the legalization of assisted suicide. Assisted suicide is a practice where the doctor prescribes and instructs you on how best to achieve a fast, painless death due to overdose. Physician-assisted suicide is similar, except the physician himself administers a lethal dose of medication into your system (Lee and Stingl). Some fear that it can lead to programs similar to that of Hitler’s Holocaust. It can end a patient’s suffering. It can also help a patient manage finances on treatments. Assisted suicide can be done in an ethical manner so

Assisted suicide has been an issue for many decades. There are views of it being considered murder and against God’s will but there are also views of it being a sympathetic release from life. The debating of this topic has not come to any concrete resolution about the legality of the practice. Assisted suicide should be legal even though the act of killing is involved. It provides the escape from life that the person wants and does not harm anyone else in the process. The views on this issue when debating have been outdated for far too long.

As of the recent year there has been views and thoughts regarding “assisted suicide”. It is a hot topic due to the fact that a physician would help a terminally-ill patient end their life early without the pain and time consuming grief. Terminally-ill patients should have the right and choice to end their life at their own wishes in the state of California. Not only is it an eyebrow raising topic but it helps those in pain along with having benefits that would affect the general population. The article “California senate sends aid-in-dying bill to Governor Brown” by Patrick McGreevy, expresses the journey the bill has had on its way to jerry brown.

Would you rather: be alive, but in so much pain that you cannot function, or die and put an end to all your suffering? Jeffrey Weiss believes that death is the better option, arguing that although human life is valuable, no one deserves to suffer through prolonged pain when no cure is available. He argues in favor of assisted suicide, attempting to convince the readers of USA Today, both liberals and conservatives, that people suffering from chronic illnesses should have the right to die. He strengthens his claim by using religious appeals, a personal anecdote, and cited facts, creating an overall logical tone.

A questionnaire was given to individuals with disabilities regarding their view on legalized assisted suicide before and after an informational presentation on the pros and cons. After the presentation those who changed their view supported opposition instead. The majority opposed legalized assisted suicide for disabled people. The informational presentation proved to have an effect on the views held of legalized assisted suicide. This validates the need to get information out to people regarding legalized assisted suicide. As a result, local programs should offer presentations to the community. Additionally, advocating for state policy to require disabled individuals and their family members to receive legalized assisted suicide education

their death, then it is to continue to keep them in a healthcare facility throughout their entire dying process. A lethal injection costs anywhere between thirty-five and fifty dollars, and drugs for suicide costs anywhere between seventy-five to one hundred dollars. According to recent Medicare data, for a beneficiary who dies of cancer after receiving conventional care, $30,397 (in 1995 dollars) is spent on medical care in the last year of life (Emanuel, 1995). There is a drastic difference in expenses spent on forms of assisted suicide in comparison to the spending on prolonging those patients in healthcare facilities. Assuming that 2.7 percent of patients who die each year (62,000 Americans) would choose physician-assisted suicide, these

Many of those that do not believe in assisted suicide do so because of religion or their ethical back round. The ideas that assisted suicide is wrong because any type of suicide is unnatural and no human being should have anything to do with their natural death. Many believe that every person has a

“I will abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous, and will not take or knowingly administer any harmful drug” (American Nurses Association). This is a piece of the Florence Nightingale pledge most nurses take at their pinning ceremonies. Physicians take a similar pledge which is called their oath to do no harm. These pledges come into question when a person is terminally ill, suffering, and is requesting physician-assisted suicide, also known as euthanasia.

Finally, Falconer also incorporates religious views in the article as well, referring back to the Terry Schiavo case which he calls “the darling religious right in the United States” (Falconer, 2009, para. 4). Modern medicine now has devoted followers have second thoughts on the matter. However, religions do have a degree of understanding with death and dying as it “unites us all” (Falconer, 2009, p.2). In most cultures, euthanasia is seen not only as a legal issue, but also a religious issue. Some faiths have embraced the idea as the ultimate act of compassion, and others simply reject it is as it is not an expression of faith and is a denial of God’s presence and power in one’s life.

Those who support assisted suicide and euthanasia also argue that the patient has right to make the choice when it comes to how they die. If you can choose to deny medical treatment, which can lead to death, then assisted suicide and euthanasia will lead to the same result, but one is legally excepted and the other illegal, Justice Scalia makes comical comparison, “say that one may not kill oneself by walking into the sea, but may sit on the beach until submerged by the incoming tide;” (Grouch 50). Also, those who support assisted suicide and euthanasia believe that ending the life of another prematurely so the person will not suffer is an act of compassion has supporters explain, “it generates an obligation to relieve suffering.”(Foley and Hendin 43)