Assisted Suicide Should Not Be Allowed

Has anyone ever heard of the term Assisted suicide? The term assisted suicide “ is suicide committed with the aid of another person, who is usually a physician. It usually is called physician assisted suicide because a doctor is providing information on committing suicide with lethal doses of drugs (Assisted). There are many people with a terminal illness considering assisted suicide. Assisted Suicide is legal in five states which is Oregon, Vermont, Washington, California, and Montana. Oregon, Vermont, Washington, and California legalizes assisted suicide through a law. Montana is the only state that requires a court ruling for assisted suicide. Assisted suicide varies on a method in each state. It usually is prescribed by a doctor in the state where the patient is living. Assisted suicide has been active from 1997 up through 2016 .An interesting fact is Assisted suicide has failed more times then it has succeeded (Physician). Physician Assistant Suicide should not be legal because of the requirements to perform it and the consequences of it

The right to assisted suicide is a topic that interests me personally, for two reasons. I have witnessed terminal patients in pain and agony the only way to end their prolonged suffering is medically assisted death. Secondly, my oldest brother had a brain bleed many years ago and was left in a vegetative state for 10 years, being young with active organs he lived like this non-responsive with a feeding tubing keeping him alive. This was at the same time as the highly publicized Karen Ann Quinlan case who lapsed into a vegetative coma at the age of twenty-one, and the hospital did not want any publicity to assist with hastening his death by removing the feeding tube. Unfortunately

Imagine laying in a hospital bed living everyday in extreme pain with no hope of getting better. This scenario explains what many people go through everyday, which is a living with a terminal illness. M. Lee, a science historian, and Alexander Stingl a sociologist, define terminal illness as “an illness from which the patient is not expected to recover even with treatment. As the illness progresses death is inevitable” (1). There are not many options for the terminally ill besides dying a slow and painful death, but assisted suicide could be best option for these patients. Assisted suicide is “any case in which a doctor gives a patient (usually someone with a terminal illness) the means to carry out their own suicide by using a lethal dose of medication” (Lee and Stingl 1). Some feel that assisted suicide is unnecessary because it is too great of a controversy and will only cause problems in society. However, assisted suicide should be legal in the United States as long as there are strict regulations to accompany it.

Though one is not a supporter of euthanasia and/or assisted suicide, circumstances can easily influence the choice to undertake. However, one should not advocate or condone assisted suicide just because a patient feels they should die. The option of assisted suicide (Physician Assisted Suicide) should be left for terminally ill patients, whose death is expected to be slow and painful both to the patient and family around them.

It is alarming that in 2013, there were eight patients from Oregon who died from lethal medication they were prescribed one to two years prior (Annual Reports). In order to receive a prescription, a patient must have a terminal illness along with a prognosis of less than six months. Physician-assisted suicide should not be legalized because not only is it unethical overall, but it leads to a slippery slope regarding normalized euthanasia, and power wrongfully resting in the hands of someone else to decide another person’s time of death.

Person B: Yes it should because here the patient gets to decide. This is unlike in involuntary and non-voluntary euthanasia where the views of the patient are not put into consideration.

The subject of legalizing physician-assisted suicide is hotly debated these days. There have been many high profile cases including Dr. Jack Kevorkian in the 90’s to the young Oregonian Brittany Maynard who ended her life just this year. Physician-assisted suicide is currently legal in Oregon, Washington, and Montana. However, even where legal, it is unethical for medical professionals to engage in assisting patients to end their lives. There are many good alternatives to physician-assisted death available to terminally ill patients. Physician-assisted suicide should not be legalized.

Is assisted suicide an act of good or bad, an act of right or wrong? A very controversial topic in today’s talk. Assisted suicide, also known as another individual helping or aiding another individual to end his or her life. A more proper definition is: the suicide of a patient suffering from an incurable disease done by taking lethal drugs. This is very familiar to occur in the health field. Even though it is not legal all around the world, licensed doctors have the permission to medically end an ills patient’s life. Some states want to further enact on this movement. The Humane and Dignified Death Act, is what will allow a physician to end the life of a terminally ill patient only on the request of the patient and the patient is to have valid

The debate on legalizing assisted suicide is an issue across the globe. It has brought countries to contemplate on the legalities of the matter in their respective legislative branches of government. Assisted suicide is just simply a matter of assessing one's will to perform such act with the permission of the subject or the patient in such way his will be done. The debate now focuses on either the act shall be legalized or not.

“The best preparation for death is a life well lived.” was said by Doctor Robert Liner. He had a close encounter with this issue, assisted suicide, which is when a physician can give a patient lethal drugs to choose to kill themself because they are in such agony. This is very controversial, whether people think it is right or wrong. When you hear the word suicide people become scared. Human nature is being scared of death because everyone has the instinct to survive. However, when someone is near death and they do not want to experience pain any longer why would someone make them do something they do not wish to do. So is assisted suicide morally okay to the doctor and the patient? Assisted suicide may seem wrong in many moral ways but through

Assisted suicide (euthanasia) can often be a very difficult issue to discuss. Assisted suicide is the suicide of a patient suffering from an incurable disease, affected by the taking of lethal drugs provided by a doctor. We don’t want to take another person's life but on the other hand we do not want to elongate the process of dying. This is one of the biggest debates that goes on in the medical field. Is it right? Is it wrong? We all have different opinions, none of which we can actually prove are correct. Assisted suicide, also known as Euthanasia, is only legal in the following six states and Washington DC; Oregon, Washington, Vermont, California, Montana Colorado. Thirty seven states have specific laws prohibiting assisted suicide,

Walking down the cold, dimly lit hallways of one of the largest military hospitals in the United States listening to the coughing, moaning and sometimes crying coming out of the terminally ill patients rooms. I have watched many patients that I have personally cared for suffer a great deal during my time as a paramedic. During that span I have wondered and questioned why someone of their own free will not choose to end their own suffering. Working in this environment gave me some insight as to what others felt about the subject. One quote that has always stood out to me is “People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death”. (Toynbee) Some Doctors and nurses are totally against the idea while others support it. Let’s look into some of the reasons why assisted suicide should be a right for everyone.

Everybody dies; it’s a natural cycle of life. Some deaths can be good while others are bad, but everyone wants to die a peaceful and painless death. For some of those dying of a terminal illness, a peaceful death isn’t an option. These dying people should get to decide how they want to end their life; it should not get chosen for them. They are the only ones living their life and experiencing their accomplishments and downfalls. To have someone choose how they should die can make their life seem pointless. If they have a decision on the matter of their life, they should get to choose how it ends. For the terminally ill, euthanasia should be an option in the United States.

In the event of someone with a terminal illness euthanasia, many believe may be the only option where the individual has the option to die and put an end to their pain and suffering. those who stand in agreement with these options, including myself, consider themselves pro-choice and provides the argument that euthanasia grants an individual the autonomy to make the ultimate decision in regards to their life. Others, believe that euthanasia deprives not only the individual affected but their families the ability of happiness or the option of life that that loved one. Euthanasia should be a decision made by the individual affected by the terminal illness and carried out by a licensed physician. Those seeking death through euthanasia should ultimately have the final say so in regards to when and how the individual dies.

What is euthanasia? Euthanasia is defined as the deliberate act of killing of a person who is suffering from a terminal disease, which therefore ends their pain and suffering. This practice is often known as a “mercy killing.” What makes voluntary euthanasia different from euthanasia? Voluntary euthanasia can be described as a “mercy killing” made at the request of the patient to end their life in a manner that minimizes further pain and discomfort.