Bill 52 Persuasive Speech

Thank you for taking the time to contact me about H.R 1062, the Pilot’s Bill of Rights 2 Act. I appreciate hearing your thoughts on this issue.

(CONSTITUTIONALITY AND CONSISTENCY) This law gives people the security to breath, it gives those who are so ill, who wouldn’t recover an option to escape their pain with security. As a Canadian society, we are used to trying to fix things, to escape trauma, assisted dying is a way to do both things when there’s no longer any way to keep fighting successfully. By giving someone who has lost their power and control their control back over their time of death, is giving them freedom within Canadian law. Having Euthanasia in Canada helps us meet our criteria of a country of freedom and choice.

As stated in the NASW, (2015 a) “The primary mission of the social work profession is to enhance human well-being and help meet the basic human needs of all people…” (Preamble section, para. 1), which is what I am doing as I advocate for SB 128. Death is natural; it’s apart of life, as well as ageing. Everyday individuals are diagnosed with a terminal illness. Those specific adults, 18 and over, male or female will have to decide how they want to spend their last dying days on earth; living in pain with terminal illness and dying in a hospital or spending their last dying days in the comfort of their own home and determining their own fate as to when they want to die so they can end their own suffering.

Physician-assisted suicide involves a doctor purposely and knowingly providing knowledge or means or both, required to commit suicide by a patient or a person willing to die. Patients that suffer from serious cancers or disease that have no cure, usually suffer the pain in hospital bed till time comes for them to permanently be free from pain. This process offers an immediate relief to those patients. Should physician-assisted suicide be permitted in Canada? Physician-assisted suicide should not be permitted in Canada as life is God’s most valuable gift to any human and by ending it, considers to be disrespect of God and his gift of been given a human form. In fact, physician assisted suicide should not be permitted in any country and countries

Criminal code 241 (b) states a person who aids or abets a person to commit suicide, whether suicide ensues or not, is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years. So why is it okay for hospitals to allow patients dying to go off life supports? Each year thousands of people die from terminal illness in Canada. Going through an unimaginable amount of pain and suffering. Having their loved ones watching the harshness of their death. Giving one the right to die gives them a chance of dignity. It gives one a chance to celebrate their life they had lived and allow themselves to move on. Physicians take great pains to alleviate suffering but when someone is so ill that they and their physician believe they should die; this is when a

Firstly, a man's father had not received doctor assisted suicide because he did not reach requirements even though he had prostate cancer. He needed a approval from 2 healthcare providers. One of them had approved and the other denied because the healthcare worker assumed that he wasn't in distress. As time passed, 2 weeks later the man's father died in a home that cared for the sick. Furthermore, even though the man had prostate cancer and he was going to die, he could not get doctor assisted suicide because it was assumed that he was not in distress. Secondly, a person with a grievous and irremediable medical condition can only be granted to get doctor assisted suicide. A doctor in Toronto said that just because of this law only 1 out of 10 requests for medically assisted dying are granted. Additionally, the doctor had also stated that there are many reasons why a patient can not be granted doctor assisted suicide and the most common one is that their condition might not be too severe and their death may not be foreseeable. Many kill themselves because they can not bear the pain that others can not see. Thirdly, the mentally ill are not being included for doctor assisted suicide. There are many organizations that fight for this right but the main one is "Dying with Dignity". This organization argues that the bill passed by Canada called C-14 discludes the mentally ill. Additionally, this is a violation to charter of rights. People have the right to make decisions about treatment according to Ontario's Health Care Consent Act. Although, they can only make these decisions if they are capable which means if they understand the information about the treatments and the consequences of refusing the treatment. Moreover, research states that the general public and health workers do not wish that the law includes these

As a result of this, the substantial issue unfolds. Assisted suicide is illegal under the terms of the Suicide Act (1961) in Canada, and is punishable by up to 14 years’ imprisonment, yet the attempt to kill yourself in not a criminal act in itself. Unfortunately, people seeking assisted suicide are incapable of committing the act themselves, which thus requires the aid of another person. Due to this, a number of Canadians have been prosecuted for helping ill patients or loved ones die. Marielle Houle, for example, was sentenced to three years by a Quebec court in 2004 for helping her 36 year old son, who suffered from multiple sclerosis, end his life; according to CBC News. Unfortunately, Canada is not alone in ruling assisted suicide illegal,

Imagine being someone one day then all of a sudden the next day you become nobody. Just like that a major event may occur in your life as well as those around you. Physician Assisted Dying (PAD) and euthanasia has just recently been legal here in Canada as of 2015. Bill 52, which allows for euthanasia, is a bill that allows people to have medical help dying, as long as they have an incurable illness. The patient must be in constant unbearable physical or psychological pain that cannot be helped. In order to receive PAD, the patient must be an adult whom is capable of consent. Minors, adults who lack decision-making, and other classes of patients such as the mentally ill do not qualify. While many people think it’s ethically wrong regardless of their health condition to ask their health care provider to assist in ending their lives; others feel as if it’s their right to choose how and when they die. A physician has numerous responsibilities that need to be taken into account when a patient as asked them to assist them into death. The physician needs to provide valid information to the patient like how there is other treatments or therapies, educating the patient on their decision, and they also need to make sure this decision came solely from the patients themselves. Physician Assisted Dying influences people with the concept that they have to right to die whenever they desire. Instead of taking your life for granted, this should come to a halt and not be extended to other

Being able to decide the fate of your own life is not an easy decision to make, and is not something to be toyed with. However, when someone is in a desperate situation, and must choose before they lose their mind (quite literally), death may be more appealing, instead of living, and being forced to suffer. By legalizing euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide, we would provide “vulnerable” patients with better overall protection and health care, give patients (who are excruciatingly suffering and have no chance of recovery) the option to end their lives before they ever needed to go through such an ordeal and giving them peace of mind, and spare the families of the patients the emotional pain of watching their loved one slowly and painfully passing away. For these reasons, I believe that euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide should be legalized in Canada.

Assisted Suicide/ Euthanasia is wrong and should not be allowed to be a law. Families shouldn’t have to go through that pain of their family member killing themselves because they hate the pain they are going through. The pain will go away with time and there is medicine for any kind of pain. There are some people who believe that there should be a choice for people who are in pain and they should have that choice because they want what they think is best for themselves. However, there are people who take Assisted Suicide/ Euthanasia to the extreme and people who “have pain” use it and they use it for the wrong reason. Many people don’t think this is a necessary reason for killing yourself. Studies show that there is a great amount of people who suffer from pain or depression that commit suicide(Why Assisted Suicide). Dr. Eli Robbins found that 47% of those committing suicide were diagnosed with schizophrenic panic disorders and

(How to Access and Use Death with Dignity Laws). Even though the patients had decided to end their lives, it still depends on the doctors to make decision for them. The work to be put in a list for an assisted suicide turns out to be very tiring for the patients who are willing to end their suffering very soon. They would be suffering more, as the process requires a lot of works. It is important to legalize assisted killing for those patients who can no longer bear the suffering and for their families who are also in deep agony seeing their loved ones lying on the bed left helpless from the disease they are suffering and whose doctor cannot make better.

Euthanasia and physician assisted suicide are both types of medical assistance aiding in ending a suffering patient’s life. This pain may be due to a terminal illness and suffering as well as those in an irreversible coma. This practice of doctor assisted suicide is illegal in many countries, but is increasing in popularity as people start to recognize the positive aspects that euthanasia has to offer for those that fit the criteria. Euthanasia is essential for those, placed in such life diminishing situations, and whom no longer want to experience suffering. This is where the issue gets complicated, and many religious groups argue that individuals should not have the legal right to choose whether they get to die or not, but that it is simply in God’s hands. Suffering patients argue that they should be given the right to choose whether or not they have to experience this suffering, to end their life with the dignity they still have, and to alleviate the stress that their deteriorating life conditions have on their families, themselves and the entire healthcare system. Therefore, despite the many arguments, euthanasia can have a very positive impact on the lives and families of suffering individuals, as well as the Canadian healthcare system.

Only a small minority of people will ever experience illnesses that fall under the category of eligibility for assisted suicide. This is good, because these illnesses rob people of their lives and leave them in great suffering and without self-determinism or control over their state of being. The truth is most people will be able to go through life without ever having to deal with symptoms such as abscesses in the lungs, paralysis of the vocal cords, or internal hemorrhages. But it very well could have been or will eventually be any one of us afflicted with a terminal disease. Therefore, we should protect the rights of individuals afflicted by these disorders.

Anyone with a terminal illness should get the option of assisted suicide. Millions of innocent people suffer every day from physical pain such as heart failure, chronic lung problems, kidney disease, AIDS, cancer and other serious fatal problems [Hospice Report Card]. When a person with a near death illness knows when their life is over they will no longer enjoy the simple things in their life and the slightest trickle of sweat will send them to there knees in excruciating pain. Assisted suicide is legal in Oregon, Washington, and Montana. People from all over the world travel to Switzerland to be assisted with suicide. Residents in Australia make there own suicide pills by having illegal drugs shipped from Mexico to form a super pill

It has been argued that for people on life support systems and people with long standing diseases causing much pain and distress, euthanasia is a better choice. It helps in relieving them from pain and misery. In cases like terminal cancers when the patient is in much pain and when people associated with them also are put through a lot of pain and misery, it is much more practical and humane to grant the person his/her wish to end his/her own life in a relatively painless and merciful way.