Things to Know About Assisted Suicide Assisted suicide is seen as something that is frowned upon here in the United States. However, it does bring a sigh of relief whenever it comes to terminally ill patients knowing that their pain and suffering can come to a swift end at anytime they please. But I suppose that that is still just a concept here in the United States due to their only being five states that it’s legal for this to happen in. It’s a shame our own people are having to live with their suffering until their days are up. So my question is, what is assisted suicide and what makes it so bad?
What is assisted suicide?
According to the dictionary, the definition of assisted suicide is; the suicide of a patient suffering from an incurable disease, affected by the taking of lethal drugs provided by a doctor for this purpose. However, some could possibly even define it as a way doctors can get away with murder. But to me, I see it as an ethical way to be relieved of the incurable illness you must live with until your days are up. As of right now, there are only five states that allow the practice of assisted suicide to partake, those being; Oregon, Washington, Vermont, California, and
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However, not everybody shares the same morals so this cannot really be argued in the sense of creating a law of it. Also, people don’t think the government should assist in ending someone’s life, and I believe that one is all up to the patient them self, they don’t know the pain they constantly have to go through day by day. A lot of people also make the argument of “they could find a cure for it” and that just raises false hopes in a sense of already having to live with it and just losing faith in being cured. It also lowers health care cost and people may take advantage for health care cost containment. Although it may not lower it too much, it still lowers the cost of healthcare