The Thoughts 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.

People say that assisted suicide is much better for patients because it is faster and more efficient. Some may even you the word “cleaner”, literally and politically. Though assisted suicide is the patients’ choice, it still leaves a big impact on the family and friends left behind. Some may even believe that the name is tarnished after the person is dead and gone. When death happens, people aren’t going to think about all the good memories and accomplishments a person has made in their lives, they are only going to think about how many pills they took to die or how big the needle was that was injected into their friends’ body to aid in the death of their family member or friend. Physician assisted suicide is preferred because no one wants to suffer in the last days of their lives. In 45 states, assisted suicide is in fact still illegal. So many people suffer until the end. It is good in some cases because when people become terminally ill, they tend to commit suicide in a more violent way. No one would want a person to take their own life in a horrible way like slitting their wrist, so why not let them die in peace. People should be able to die

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.

There are constant arguments about if this practice is ethical or not, and some believe it is while others believe it isn’t. Some believe that laws against assisted suicide are in place to protect patients from the abuse of some doctors. (Top 10 Pros and Cons). The idea of the laws against physician-assisted suicide are said to be in place to prevent the possible abuse of doctors, and not to make the patient suffer. It’s also to protect the poor, minority groups, and those who are the least educated and empowered. These groups are said to be the ones that are most likely to suffer from abuse during this process (Top 10 Pros and Cons). Under the Hippocratic Oath, there is the main line that states “I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody if asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect” (Top 10 Pros and Cons). The Hippocratic Oath is taken by every doctor and it is vital that they do not go against the oath with their actions. A lot of people do not actually have a living will, which will make it difficult for families to know what the patient wants when they can no longer make decisions for themselves (Top 10 Pros and Cons). Understanding the pros and the cons of an issue is very important to deciding the stance you have.

In today’s society, assisted-suicide is a highly debatable topic. Due to advancements in medicine and medical technology, that can prolong life and slow down the process of dying, the desire for assisted suicides has increased. Assisted-suicide is when a health care professional provides a patient the knowledge and means to intentionally kill themselves (Harris 2006). An example of assisted-suicide is providing a patient pills to take to end their lives. Patient assisted-suicides are only legal in six states within the United States; Oregon, Washington, Vermont, California, Montana and Colorado (Hudson 2015). In order for an individual to legally qualify the patient must have the capability to effectively communicate their healthcare decision,

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.

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.

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.

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

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,

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