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Assisted Suicide Persuasive Essay

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Not only is the treatment time consuming but running to the doctor can take a lot of time. Usually, when I go to a doctor, ninety minutes out of my day is involved between waiting to see the doctor, the actual visit, and follow up. Doctor visits are not usually the only visit required; nursing visits, therapy, and lab tests also take several hours a day. Again, a lot of wasted time. The last thing to consider is the pain and suffering a patient has to go through. I cannot stand to see someone I deeply care about suffer beyond all measures due to an illness. I have a relative who was just diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and it has changed him. He looks sick and is very tired. You can tell he is in a ton of pain and there is nothing I can do for …show more content…

Assisted suicide is not a decision to make as it will have lasting consequences on loved ones. It will also change what we currently think of suicide. All of my life I was taught that suicide was bad. Teenage years were rough, but we stuck them out. Even when life was unbearable, we pushed through and grew. Suicide was never an option to be considered. If we allow ourselves to say, I have a terminal illness, I have the right to commit suicide, we are changing our view on suicide saying it is “ok” to do in tough situations. We do not to give the image, when the going gets tough, end your life; we want to push through and learn. Suicide should not be an option. Death is very hard on people, suicide or not. We love these people and do not want to see them suffer; the death of a loved one has an impact on all of us. When I have lost a loved one, even if it was due to natural causes, it was very difficult; I had an adjustment period afterwards. Any death, suicide or not, will have an effect on others. Assisted suicide, again is not an option as this has an effect on not only the patient, but loved ones as

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“The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how well life gets again after the hell is over.” People are unable to realize how their situation can be resolved better than having to kill themselves. Terminally ill patients are notorious for taking their lives before they can realize the mistake they are making. They believe that it is best for their situation, however, there are multiple reasons for why they should reconsider their actions before something terrible happens. Doctor assisted suicides should not be allowed because of the effects it has on the deceased loved ones and how more terminally ill patients are overcoming their disabilities.

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In the end, I have never been in a situation or know of someone that was terminally ill and contemplated assisted suicide, thus I do not have the proper knowledge to confidently further state my position

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Assisted Suicide is acceptable in some situations and people should have the ability to be able to choose to commit suicide. By assisting others in suicide, you are putting the person, their family, and the people

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When suicide gets mentioned the first thing that usually comes to mind is someone who is very depressed ending their life. The thought of someone who is terminally ill wanting to commit suicide usually never crosses someone's mind because they are supposed to keep strong, to keep fighting their illness and stay alive. Jack Kevorkian was a physician who made a suicide machine specifically to help ill people who can't function normally to commit suicide, he helped around 130 people commit suicide. When people found out about jack kevorkian and what he was doing they were outraged, how could someone help another person end their life when you should help them have a life worth living? The people wanted him imprisoned and the people got what they wanted, he was sentenced 10-25 years in prison but was released after 8 years as long as he did not continue to assist in any suicides.

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I agree with the idea of assisted suicide, because if someone is suffering to the point that they can no longer care for themselves. They may feel that it is there time to go and that person should be able to make that decision. Although some believe that assisted suicide is wrong that should be left to the person that is going to die or the person

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Doctors should have responsibility of helping the ill patients to get better physically. Physicians are the icon of peace and generous within the society since their job is to solve the physical pain of the patients. In allowing physician-assisted suicide, the duty of physicians is misread. Society and law are saying that physician’s duty is no longer helping patients, but they can also easily put an end to patient’s life. In the New York Times article “Doctor-Assisted Suicide Is Unethical and Dangerous”, Ira Byock states, “people who are poor, or old and frail, or simply have long-standing disabilities, may worry that when they become acutely ill, doctors might see their lives as not worth living and compassionately act to end their supposed misery”.

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Moreover, there should be the freedom of choice to have the right to choose when you can get doctor assisted suicide for patients such diseases. Secondly, many have asked for assisted suicide in the past as well but not have been granted it. In the early 1990’s a woman named Sue Rodriguez had a disease which she was suffering from but she was not able to get doctor assisted suicide. She had a disease called ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis). This was a neurological disease that affected nerve cells, affecting movement of muscles.

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Some examples of a terminal illness include cancer, stroke, and ALS. Many people disagree with assisted suicide, but it is the better choice for those who do not what their disease to change who they are. The main arguments to allow this in our country is that the tremendous amount of pain and suffering of the patient will end, euthanasia, and health care costs will be reduced. Some people may choose to live their life with dignity and end their life in dignity, but assisted suicide would allow the choice to be their own. The pain a person can go through is a tremendous amount, especially those who are dying from a terminal illness.

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When society supports Assisted Suicide, society says that a life is only worth so much. But what do they say it is worth? Only $75-$100. So, you decide if your grandparents or even parents are just worth that $100 to you.

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Although family, doctors, relatives, and the government may have a say in whether or not assisted suicide should be legal, the patient themselves is the one who is dealing with the decision to end their own life or not. Assisted suicide should be allowed for the terminally ill in order to preserve their dignity. The book Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide, and the Philosophical Anthropology of Karol Wojtyla by AK Fernandes states, “If a person chooses, they ought to be allowed to have assisted suicide or euthanasia. Such a free choice will preserve dignity by allowing a person to maintain control over the timing and manner of their death.” Loss of dignity is closely associated with certain types of distress often seen among the terminally ill.

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People understand how much a dying person could be in so much pain but are thinking about the people who really and love and care for people. No family member or close friend or even a spouse would ever in their right mind agree to having a loved one commit suicide. I think this is very selfish depending on the circumstances that are going on in the situation. I think it is selfish because there are people that have cared and love for them and they don’t realize that. When I forced myself to consider the grim reality of my mother's predicament, I knew that assisted suicide would be the best way out for her.

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Assisted suicide is something that has been discussed in the medical field for years. It is something that a lot of thought has to go into before a real decision about it is made. I think that doctors should only assist someone in suicide if there is absolutely nothing they can do about what is happening to the patient, like if they had a brain tumor. If doctors normally take oaths to always do what they can for their patients, they should not just give up on them and assist them in suicide.

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“I don't want my family to see me suffering, I don't want that to be their last memory of me.” For many individuals the term suicide is referred as something horrible that only “desperate” people do. But what if this person is really in pain? What if this person has absolutely no chance or possibility of surviving without taking any prescribed medications? Assisted suicide should be available to terminally ill patients because it will end their suffering and it will prevent the waste of money in vain.

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