The Theory Of Assisted Suicide

On the positive side of assisted suicide, it is strongly believed that the right to assisted suicide allows the terminally ill to have a clean and fair death. No one wants to live with pain and sorrow. From their perspective, doctor's help the suffering and terminally ill to die when they choose is nothing wrong. From what they had argued, the First Amendment to the United States Constitution allows people the right to freedom of speech, press, petition, religion. With this logic, it would be reasonable to believe that you are allowed to have the right to die. The right to assisted suicide can help the patients with the terminally ill to release from pain and suffering, reduce the damaging financial effects of hospital care on their families, and preserve the individual right of people to determine their own fate.

Now that I’ve demonstrated that my ethical theory can be used to make educated decisions in situations that we can potentially face daily, how does my ethical theory fit with issues of life or death? My ethical theory focuses more on issues that an individual will face in their everyday life. It does not directly deal with issues of life and death; however you can still go through the core concepts to make a decision. For instance, let's take a look at assisted suicide.

The thoughts of assisted suicide are very mixed. Some people believe that it is a great way to put terminally-ill patients out of the their pain and suffering. They see it as a way for a person to die with dignity after suffering from a painful disease. Others think it is beyond morally wrong for a doctor to intentionally end a patient’s life. They feel that a doctor should not have unnecessary deaths riding, on their shoulders the rest of their career. Assisted suicide goes way beyond the beliefs of medicine and is morally wrong in so many ways.

A. Doctor assisted suicide, also known as euthanasia, “is where a medical doctor helps a patient to die by prescribing a legal overdose,” (Definitions of Euthanasia - Assisted Suicide, 2017, N/A). Currently in Texas the policy in place dealing with doctor assisted suicide according to the Texas Legislature in Texas Laws on Assisted Suicide

An ongoing national concern is assisted suicide. Should it be legal or illegal? Assisted suicide is defined as the death of a patient due to suffering caused by an incurable disease. They end their life by taking lethal amounts of drugs provided by a doctor. (Oxford University Press 2015).In America, people have rights, but does the government have the authority to decide personal choices for them? This is a very realistic topic discussed among the nation’s citizens. The following are considered extreme viewpoints of this topic: humanistic, capitalistic, conservative, and liberal. There are currently only five states that practice the death with dignity law, those being Oregon, Washington, Vermont, New Mexico, and Montana. Some are legalized

Although a majority of Americans consider suicide morally wrong, the public shows a broad support for the idea of physician assisted suicide when considering terminal patients. However, even though it is the same concept, the term "physician assisted suicide" is a somewhat negative implication for a substantial amount of Americans, which is why the public is divided when asked about its moral acceptance. Physician-assisted suicide is thought by many to be a form of euthanasia, however, it is not. Euthanasia is when a doctor injects a patient with a lethal dosage of medication accelerating the death process. During this process, the physician only prescribes a lethal dose of medication to a patient. According to Dr. Brian Pollard,

The purpose of this research paper is to examine the many different angles of a controversial topic such as physician assisted suicide or euthanasia. Physician assisted suicide (PAS) is when a person kills him or herself and the doctor supplies the means knowing what the intention is. The doctor prescribes a medication to their patient in lethal doses. This allows the patient to choose when they want to die. They can take the pills at home with friends and family present if they wish or they could peacefully go alone. Euthanasia is lethal injection by a physician. PAS is currently illegal in the United States of America with the exception of one state, Oregon. Euthanasia is illegal in the entire United States. Throughout the rest of the

In the United States, it is an unacceptable act. States are allowed to enact laws permitting assisted suicide. A solution to this problem is to create a law to make it legal. If anyone had a problem with this law, they can go to court to talk about it. Court will only try to convince them of the benefits of Assisted Suicide. Another solution is to talk live on TV and explain the benefits of this. The government can convince the country of everything good to it. They will help this issue by explaining to the country how it really works. Only a few places Assisted Suicide is legal. Oregon was the first state to permit Assisted Suicide. In 1991, the citizens of Oregon voted to legalize a highly controversial practice called physician-assisted suicide in their state. In 1994, Oregon signed the Death with Dignity Act, allowing a terminally ill person meeting certain point to end their own life with the help of a doctor. The death with dignity act was written with several safeguards that are intended to protect the vulnerable, weak, sick, elderly, and others from being taken advantage of. In this case, physicians may not be forced to participate in the Death with Dignity Act. In 1997, President William Jefferson Clinton signed the Assisted Suicide Funding Restriction act. Montana, Oregon, and Washington legalized physician assisted suicide. California was the

Imagine that you are in a physical condition that does not allow you to move your body. You feel nothing but pain. You cannot communicate your sorrow because you cannot move your mouth. You want to scream, but hardly a grunt comes out. There’s only one escape. Who is to say you shouldn’t take advantage of that? Medically assisted suicide is a controversial topic. It is the medical practice of allowing one’s terminally ill patient to take the most painless path to death possible to prevent them from choosing a horrifically painful alternative or simply passing away from their illness however that may be. Many believe that the legalization of this practice would lead to a massive amount of pressure on the terminally ill and lead to an unreasonable and dangerous amount of non-justified suicides. It is also not considered to be a legitimate medical practice by many. However, it is imperative that it is both legalized and socially accepted. By taking one’s life away, you also rid them of the misery that was already killing them. With proper restriction from suicide for people who do not need it, medically assisted suicide is entirely safe and beneficial to the patient using it.

There is no doubt that the medical field has gone through numerous changes due to the advancement in technology. In reference to Spekowius and Thomas, technological development has been the primary driving force towards the improvement in medical care that has seen numerous lives saved. Nonetheless, despite the advancements, chronic diseases such as cancer remain without a cure. Palliative care remains the only process that can keep individuals alive and comfortable for as long as it is medically possible. However, there has been debate over the effectiveness of palliative care in reference to care offered to chronic disease patients. Euthanasia has been an option in such discussions. The view of assisted suicide as a medical solution for

Assisted suicide is an ongoing affair that has gained relevance due to recent events. For example, Brittany Maynard who decided to take her own life on November 1, 2014 at the age of 29. This caused a major uproar in the United States, much of America was split between the decision of Maynard, those who supported her cause were for the Death with Dignity Law, while the opposing crowd were a variety of religious organizations that condemned Maynard for advocating such cause. This dilemma has defy the beliefs of many Americans, and it appears to be a continuation of church versus state. In today’s age there seems to be a separation of religion in the modern home, and this has caused a major shift in how we evaluate things. Instead of looking to the church for guidance, we are using technology and science to validate our values.

The constitution states that people have the right to live or die but it does not say that doctors have to assist them in the process. People do have the right to choose if they want to end their life or not but they should not have a doctor to do it for them because that makes it a lot easier for the person to just end their life. Therefore assisted suicide is not constitutionally protected.

Should people be allowed to have the option to do assisted suicide? I believe they should have that as an option. Just because you make it illegal doesn't mean that's stopping it. In hopeless cases, assisting a patient in bringing about his or her own death is the best way in which a physician could help that patient. Legalizing assisted suicide would help patients receive better care while they are still alive.

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Life is a valuable thing and we take it for granted. The value of each person's life is different