The Thoughts Of Assisted Suicide

Physician-assisted suicide has been a topic discussed since the beginning of modern medicine. Any topic that involves someone’s life and decisions that they may make about it usually becomes controversial. Physician-assisted suicide is an end of life option where people can voluntarily request medicine to end their life (Death With Dignity). There are many different opinions about the topic, and some people believe that it should be illegal because of the fact that it’s suicide. Also, many people’s religious or spiritual beliefs inhibit them from supporting this idea. Physician-Assisted Suicide should be legal because people should have control over their lives, there are many requirements to meet, and making it illegal has not stopped people from practicing it.

Physician-assisted suicide has been a questionable act for many years. Some people believe that it is ethical for a physician to assist their patient in suicide, if it is the patients choice. Others have argued that it is simply not right for a physician to assist their patient in suicide. There have also been arguments that legalizing physician-assisted suicide can lead to patient abuse. I personally believe that patients should have the right to end their lives by means of physician-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

Most people have seen at least one person in their life suffering in unbearable pain up to their death, and it’s never something people find joy in. There is nothing pleasing about being in pain or watching someone be in pain. For those people whose pain does not respond to methods of modern medicine, there should be the option of physician-assisted suicide. “Physician-assisted suicide refers to the practice of a physician prescribing or regulating, upon a patient’s informed request, a lethal dose of medication for the purpose of ending that patient’s life” (Lerner). The lethal drugs that are given to the patient by the doctor are administered by the patient themself, not by the doctor, so

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.

Physician assisted suicide is legal but it is always subject to change. How does this make you feel? Do you agree with this choice or not? There are only 4 states in the U.S. that makes this legal. Oregon, Montana, Washington, and Vermont are the only states that have made this legal in the U.S. People are actually putting their lives into someone else’s hand who mind you gets paid for what they are doing. They are letting someone who is getting paid to do what they are doing decide if they live or not. Physician assisted suicide should not be legalized in any of the 50 states. Euthanasia is the practice of ending a human life with that person 's consent, voluntary stopping of eating and drinking, and physician assisted suicide invites compromise among caregivers or family member who might have economic or otherwise selfish interests in ending another’s life.

Assisted Suicide should be made legal, as many people suffer from diseases that aren’t always curable, and it doesn 't make sense to let them go through all that pain, and also for some families that have financial struggles paying for their medical bill. This controversial debate is whether or not assisted suicide or mercy killing should be legal and whether or not doctors should be allowed to help patients kill themselves or give guidance on how to. People argue that assisted suicide should be considered legal, “In a spirit of compassion for all, this manifesto proclaims that every competent adult has the incontestable right to humankind’s ultimate civil and personal liberty -- the right to die in a manner and at a time of their own choosing.

Assisted suicide and the right to die has been a controversial topic in both society and the medical field. Many people are against assisted suicide due to religious or personal beliefs. This topic has many viewpoints and different reasons behind its position. These viewpoints vary from person to person, but only some main points can be covered. Most people feel that assisted suicide and the right to die should be only limited to people who are terminally ill, some think it shouldn’t be allowed to anybody and should be illegal to do so as it is in most states, and others feel it should be provided to everyone as it is their free will to do so. Whether or not someone should be able to commit suicide with medical help varies due to beliefs and morals. The answer of whether it should be legal or not is purely opinionated and will be debatable for many years to come.

Beneficence, is the principle whose main purpose is to promote good actions towards the patients, whilst having a moral understanding that this is also your duty and obligation as a health professional. Ensuring patient safety and wellbeing is of the upmost importance. Sometimes, as a health professional, internal dilemmas encountered when it comes to finding the balance between what we think is good for the patient, versus, what the patient thinks is good for themselves. Euthanasia, also known as assisted suicide, has been a topic of discussion for many years within the health care field. There are many cases in which a client might be diagnosed as terminally ill. Sometimes, these clients undergo painful procedures, surgeries, but ultimately,

Aaron discusses the effects that a mercy killing can make in our society contradicting some

At the basic level, suicide is the act intentionally and voluntarily killing one self. The word suicide is composed of two Latin words, sui meaning “self” and caedere meaning “to kill.” Though the definition and act of suicide may appear to be quite simple, the circumstances, the causes, and the aftermath make the subject matter much more complicated than it is (Stewart, 1998). Though everyone’s situation may be different, those who commit suicide tend to have an overwhelming feeling of hopeless, helplessness, and emotional pain, and therefore see suicide as an escape (Stewart, 1998).

In the 21th century, human understanding for life and death reaches a new level. With great advance in medical technique and quality of life, people not only attach importance to the sanctity of life, but also think highly of value and quality of life. Based on such shift in people 's concept and comprehension, in recent years there arises a series of physician assisted suicide cases throughout the world. Assisted suicide means the deliberate hastening of death by a terminally ill patient with assistance from a doctor, family member or another individual. In contemporary world, there has been a continuingly heated debate on this highly controversial issue, especially whether or not for legislative bans. So far doctor-assisted suicide is still illegal in most countries. Later in 2000, the Netherlands became the first country to legalize euthanasia. However, to local government 's shock, their country became the destination of suicide-committing tourists. Assisted suicide involves our rights about living and death, involves the dignity of life, at the same time, it associates with unclear relationship between medicine and law. Generally, assisted suicide should not be legalized. Anyway, it is a murder or suicide, which is always irrational behavior, thus our society should in no case encourage its occurrence.

Assisted suicide is mandated in 4 states by State law, California, Vermont, Washington, and Oregon. It is mandated by court ruling in Montana. The individual must have a terminal illness as well as a prognosis of six months or less to live. While making assisted suicide illegal, it doesn’t stop people from committing suicide. It does however make it safer for the ill people that are dying and ready to leave this world. Suicide will forever be a problem, it is sad and I wish more people would get help and pull through their depression and other things. But it’s not fair to the people that are dying and will die within a certain time period, to suffer and get more and more sick, sometimes to the point where they are just living in a hospital bed the rest of their lives.

As the semester goes on I need to continually do progress reports to see how far I have grown as a writer. I also need to do progress reports so my manager can see where I am at for my white paper: The Right to Assisted Suicide. At the beginning of the semester I was asked to write a progress report of my writing thus far. During that memo I wrote three goals; to improve my grammar, to add more details to my essays, and fixing mistakes from past essays.

I do agree that society views this as unethical because suicide is such a touchy subject. However, the alternative to assisted suicide would be the patient refusing care. This is legal and accepted as the patient my die of so called natural cause. These natural causes could be dehydration, lack of oxygen or dying from their illness. Does this seem rational to let someone die a painful way versus letting them die a noble death? I have also experienced this as my grandmother died of brain cancer. She wanted someone to just give her an extra dose of morphine so she could ease away and be with my grandfather that passed away in the 1990’s. However, this was and still is illegal in most states so we had to stand idly by and watch her suffer. I’m