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Arguments Against Physician Assisted Suicide

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Physician assisted suicide is not innovative. Health Care providers are telling their clients that they are not worth the money of treatment when it would just be cheaper for death. In 2008, Oregon resident Barbara Wagger needed chemotherapy to fight lung cancer. The Oregon Health Plan office would not pay $4,000 per month because it was not within their guidelines of treatment. Although they did offer to pay $50 for lethal prescription drugs to end her life. Wagner told the local newspaper “To say to someone, ‘We’ll pay for you to die, but not pay for you to live,’ it’s cruel.” It makes the terminally ill feel like a burden to everyone else. As Kirsten Powers asked “Is anyone ashamed that we live in a culture where people believe that if …show more content…

It is not just happening to adults, it is happening to kids and sometimes, they don’t even get a choice. In April, a 47-year-old Dutch mother of two was granted her wish to die because of long-standing tinnitus. In late 2012, 45-year-old deaf twins were euthanized in Belgium rather than face the prospect of losing their sight. (Expanding) Legalization would also be bad for families of the terminally ill. Suicide leaves people thinking about sadness, anger and possibly committing suicide themselves. Physician assisted suicide also requires no family notification. Also people may think why would the patient agree to this, but the truth is terminally ill people are overwhelmed, depressed, very vulnerable, and easily influenced. (Legalized) Doctor’s who were all for it and started using it when it was first legalized in 1994 think that this situation is out of control. The physician who created euthanasia and physician assisted suicide is not for it. He is quoted as saying “This situation has gone off the rails.” (Expanding). Also doctors aren’t going to have to go through as much schooling for treatment if they can just kill them instead. You have to have skill and training to provide end of life care, but it doesn’t take skill to kill. It's a simple and affordable solution that puts an end to patients, not diseases. It gives physicians a lot power and makes people think that they are all mean so that

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Physician assisted suicide should be decriminalized because, from an ethical and economic perspective, those with terminal diseases have a right to choose death. Many patients feel that even though they will eventually die due to their illness that ending their life will be the best way in the end, but due to expenses they can not

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This is because, with the preparation of death by physician assisted suicide, a doctor can save the healthy vital organs before they are left unviable. Doctors are able to save the lives of many other patients instead of spending time on terminal patients who no longer want to live in their

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I have chosen to create an online article about the issue of women in advertising for the “Health and Beauty” section of The Guardian. Having watched Jean Kilbourne’s documentary “Killing Us Softly 4,” I realized there is intense gender bias in our society, specifically discrimination towards women in the advertisements I would see throughout the day. Also, reading Joyce Carol Oate’s short sotry, “Where are you going, Where have you been?” helped me formulate a better understanding of how popular culture creates a singular identity. In my article, I tried to use all three of Aristotle’s rhetorical appeal techniques.

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Physician-Assisted suicide is legal in five out of the fifty states in America. These states include: California, Montana, Oregon, Vermont and Washington. Physician-assisted suicide is considered acceptable when a patient has less than six months to live. Physician-assisted suicide was publicly brought to attention in 1990 after Dr. Kevorkian assisted over 40 people into committing suicide in Michigan. Before the process starts, the patient must meet the certain requirements before given a lethal drug.

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Physician-assisted death is the practice in which a physician provides a mentally competent patient with the means to take his/her own life, usually in the form of prescribing death-dealing medications. It first became legal in the United States in Oregon in 1998. It is now legal in four other states: Washington, California, Montana, and Vermont. In order for one to exercise their right to die this way, the law states that the patient must be at least 18 years old, be mentally competent, be diagnosed with a terminal illness that will lead to death within six months, and must wait at least fifteen days before filling the death-dealing prescriptions. This controversial practice has raised the question of whether or not it is ethical for a physician

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Not only does it give physician, who is still human, too much power and room for human error, it is religiously and morally incorrect, violates the Hippocratic oath, and above devalues the precious gift of life. As stated earlier, treatment is possible and should be looked into instead of giving up. Donating your final moments to research and to help aid in discovering different treatment options, could give a child a chance to live that is diagnosed with the same illness. There will always be pros and cons to this subject but my opinion stands. A person has to right to refuse or accept treatment, but should not be able to take their own lives by assistance of a

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Physician-Assisted Suicide is a very prominent current event being documented today as science and medicine continue to make advancements. However, this is a very misunderstood topic throughout social media and national news, causing many people to have various views on whether or not it should be allowed. Even though some people feel that PAS is unethical, because people are allowed to change their own fate, when people are diagnosed with incurable, terminal illnesses, they should be allowed to die with dignity and on their own terms. There are several factors that help make the patient’s mind up when choosing this method.

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Someone might disagree and say, voluntary euthanasia will be (physicians assisted suicide) the start of the slope that leads to involuntary euthanasia and the killing of people who are thought undesirable. However, physician assisted suicide isn’t a "right or wrong" thing. People have the right to bear arms, freedom of speech, etc.

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Although some patients want to live, they may be forced to take a cheaper option. “Assisted dying could help control health care spending, but he worries about its misuse. ‘There's a good chance of inequality in assisted dying,’ he says, ‘with it being offered most readily to those least able to pay for regular medical care or long term care.” (Worsnop 1992 para 17). People will end up losing their lives over this.

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By choosing physician assisted suicide, research has shown that patients feel in control of their lives again. This action, in countries which allow the option of physician assisted suicide, is known as the freedom to choose. Kate Cheney was eighty-five of age and suffered from terminal cancer. Her request to use physician assisted suicide was denied by her doctors. Kate’s daughter saw the recommendations put in place to safeguard her mother’s right to life as obstacles.

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That is to say, why keep a person whose life is now full of suffering, with death right around the corner from being able to decide on a time of death if they choose to do so. The numbers from Oregon, since the implementation of “Death with Dignity,” reveals “752 patients have participated in physician-assisted death; 400 more people received prescriptions to end their lives but never took the medication.” Undoubtedly, the indication of these numbers is that patients are still in full control of their lives until the end, the sole authority in the most dire of circumstances. A reality advocates of PAS thinks critics are attempting to abolish. The aforementioned, Jack Kevorkian believed, “If you don 't have liberty and self-determination, you 've got nothing, . . . .

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While assisted suicide is not as controversial a topic as abortion or gun control, it is quite controversial nonetheless. The idea that a medically licensed doctor can help someone end their life, the exact opposite of their job description, is mind boggling. Many people feel as though this is wrong and religiously a sin, but others feel as though it is every person’s decision how they live and, in this case, how they end their lives. Those who are for physician-assisted suicide have probably had some sort of contact with it, whereas those who are so against it, probably have no reason to try to understand why someone may want to take their own life this way.

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“Legislation that allows people to end their lives automatically creates incentives to seek death as a cost-saving option. The elderly and infirm are seen as burdens and can easily be disposed of. Suicide becomes the easy way out.” (Ben Broussard) Most of the time physicians are against the idea of physician assisted suicide because it goes against their job description and personal beliefs.

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Physician assisted suicide is when a person can choose to die on their own free will. The doctor helps the person administer life-ending medication. This is legally used in California, Oregon, Washington, Vermont, Colorado, and Montana. Not only is it widely used throughout the world there are still laws on it like the Death with Dignity Act. While physician assisted suicide and euthanasia is a topic greatly debated around the world, it should be legal in all states because it is a human right to die on their own terms.

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Killing oneself is not a way to end intense pain; a doctor better trained in palliative care is the solution.” (TEXAS RIGHT TO LIFE, 2010). In other words, instead of finding the easy way out of a pain that a patient is receiving, we as a community can be able to find solutions that will benefit the patient in the long run. In a majority of the cases, patients that ask for euthanasia suffer from depression without even knowing it. With these patients, we need to treat them like any other patient that has depression and make sure that they get the best mental

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