Assisted Suicide Arguments Against Euthanasia

Assisted Suicide (a.k.a. Euthanasia) is something that has been in the news on and off for decades. There are arguments both for and against it, usually “assisted suicide” is the term associated with those who are opposed to it. The term ‘assisted suicide’ is a negative way to announce the topic because of the implications of the word ‘suicide’ itself. Advocates who support it will use key phrases like “Dying with Dignity” or “Physician-assisted suicide” to add a positive twist. Generalization of the topic by definition, usually lacking personal opinion, is just referred to as “Euthanasia”. No how people refer to it, euthanasia is an extremely controversial topic. Euthanasia in the U.S. is currently legal in only a few states. Eventually I

Jack Kevorkian who was nicknamed Dr. Death. Many practitioners in America believe that physician-assisted suicide violates the doctor’s basic creed - do no harm. Kevorkian however believed that the laws that were blocking assisted deaths needed to be reformed because most American doctors “failed their patients by not responding to their suffering.” On Dec. 18th 1993 a circuit court judge ruled that Michigan’s law which prevented assisted suicide was unconstitutional. This courtroom ruling in and of itself is enough evidence to tell me that if it is unconstitutional to prevent it, then that also means that the patient actually has a constitutional right of accessibility to physician-assisted death as a medical alternative to end suffering. Hence the term ‘dying with

What happens after we die is not the topic of discussion here, only the events leading up to our death. For instance Buddhists believe that the actions leading up to the time of death can greatly improve one’s karma and reduce suffering in their next life… therefor shortening life may lead to suffering in the long term. Christians, Catholics and other similar faiths which we are more familiar with here in the U.S. oppose euthanasia because it either interferes with “God’s plans” or because it is still considered suicide which by their faith is a condemnable sin, and a final act for which there is no redemption. In case I was not clear, let me explain why these opinions are important in the fight for our constitutional right to end our own suffering… These are the opinions of people who generally feel that they cannot in good conscious vote on a law that would allow someone else to commit what they consider to be against their religion. So because many different people believe their religions are the only way, that elderly man that has undergone multiple cancer treatments has to continue to suffer the treatments or give up and suffer a painful and drawn out fate which will become the legacy their family and loved ones remember them by. That is how they will be remembered, not the loving