The Pros And Cons Of Confer Suicide

Many people in the world are suffering from illness that cannot be cured. They live their last days in pain and suffering wondering when and why it happened to them. Instead of suffering, many people dream of suicide to take their pain away but they know no one would understand. In very few states, it is legal for people to get assistance to put them out of their pain and suffering. It is called assisted suicide. Assisted suicide is the help from a physician to end their patients’ lives with their permission. The patient must have a terminal illness with less than six months to live to qualify. Many people are against assisted suicide because they believe that it is just a cover for murder. People should be thought of as dying with dignity

Durkheim argues that the suicide rate is a social factor that can be interpreted as an indicator for social solidarity within a society (http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01114474).

Opponents of the new law restricting assisted suicide to all living beings believe that the new law decreases the value of a human life. Assisted suicide in the beginning appears like a good thing to have available. However, on closer examination, there are many reasons legalization is an extremely serious mistake. Supporters often focus merely on artificial issues of choice and self-determination. Assisted suicide would have many unintended consequences.

Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States. There are approximately 121 successful suicides a day, and 44,193 a year. Almost 50% of suicides are committed with a firearm. Seven out of ten suicides are committed by white middle aged men. It is proven that men die from suicide 3.5 times more than women; however, it is documented that women try three times more. Over the past 17 years’ suicide rates have increased steadily. Suicide rates are higher in people who are 34 and older. Whites currently hold the highest suicide rate. The most popular form of suicide is with a firearm it accounts for 49.8%. Second is suffocation at 26.8%, then poisoning at 15.4%, and other at 7.9%. No count is kept for people who attempted

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.

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

Quality versus quantity: which is more important? A year of suffering or a few more pleasant weeks of living? The decision is yours. Or is it? In the United States citizens’ rights to life, liberty and property are protected under the constitution. Yet, the right to die is a gray area, complicated by varying degrees of moral and ethical opinions. The current debate questions the legality of physicians’ assisted suicide, the ability of doctors to medically assist the dying for a more peaceful death. Many politicians, religious leaders and humanists question its morality. However, the terminally ill should be able to die on their own terms, with the help of physicians’ assisted suicide.

“The terms “aid in dying,” “death with dignity,” and “patient directed dying” are merely euphemisms for the practice [of assisted suicide]. In fact, these terms are not recognized by the medical community and are simply used by suicide advocates to mask what they advocate.”(Harned, 2012, pp 513). However, the people who assist with suicide call it being compassionate. “The United States Supreme Court held in 1997[ruled] that there is no federal constitutional right to assisted suicide under the Due Process or Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.”(Harned, 2012, pp 513). “In 2011, the people of Idaho responded to pressure from advocates to “find” legal recognition of physician-assisted suicide within their law by enacting a new

When it comes to the topic of assisted suicide there are people who are for and against it just like all other controversial topics. Assisted suicide is when someone who is terminally ill decides to end their own life with the assistance of physician legally in certain states. When someone who is considering assisted suicide they must meet certain criteria in order for it to be legal. One of the criteria is them being terminally ill and have been given 6 months or less of their life to live. If that criteria is met then they need to have 2 oral and 1 written request for assistance with the process. Another criteria is 2 physicians have to be convinced that the person is in their right mind and that it is it is their decision not anyone else's.

Suicide: the intentional taking of one’s own life. Each year 34,000 people commit suicide about twice as many deaths as caused by homicide, about 1 death per 15 minutes. People commit suicide as an act of getting away from their everyday problems. Some people argue for legal recognition for a “right to suicide” and allowing physician assistance with that. I believe we should help people come to a better conclusion than to take their own lives.

In the United States, the rate of suicide has kept on ascending subsequent to the 1970s. More beyond words suicide than from crime in North America. Suicide is the eighth driving reason for death in the U.S., and the third driving reason for death for individuals matured 15 to 24. There are more than 30,000 suicides for each year in the U.S., or around 86 every day; every day around 1,500 individuals endeavor suicide.

Your best friend is lying terminally ill on their death bed in pain begging the doctors to help them die because they can no longer live a life from a hospital bed in pain. Is it okay to help the patient end their life with assisted suicide if they give you permission or sign a form? Or is it still a violation of the hypocritic oath and human morals? Can friends and family help put their loved one out of their misery or should it only be medical professionals? In todays society assisted suicide is a dilemma often not talked about but one that should be talked about much more. Is assisted suicide still considered murder in the eyes of the law? What about in ones own personal morals?

Suicide is death caused by an individual with the intent to die; as a result self-inflicted injury. A suicide attempt is the non-fatal self-inflicted injury; and suicidal ideation is the thought of inflicting self- harm or planning suicide (CDC). Montana suicide rate for 2014 was 243; Lake County accounted for 85 of that suicide rate. Suicidal attempts in the United States reached to approximately 1.5 million in 2014; this is one attempt every 30 seconds (sprc.org). January 2015 to 2016, 14.6 % of students had ideations of suicide, and 8.6% of students had attempted suicide (sprc.org).

The first oath a doctor ever takes is the Hippocratic Oath. It distinctly states, “I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody who asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect.” Doctors swear to do no harm, yet some violate the very oath they pledge their profession to. Assisted suicide should not be an option to patients with terminal illnesses because the end of a patient’s life should be morally acceptable, decided rationally, and lived out in comfort.

Imagine a person you deeply care about unable to walk, unable to see, unable to speak and, can barely breathe. This person is in such unbearable pain that they can’t even cry. They are battling a sickness with no cure that is only going to get worse and shortly lead to death. There is nothing left to do. Could ending their life medically be the answer to their pain? But, what if that wasn’t even an option because it was illegal.This situation is the reality for many people.