Go Softly Into That Good Night Euthanasia Research Paper

Go Softly Into That Good Night Euthanasia: the suicide of a patient suffering from an incurable disease, effected by the taking of lethal drugs provided by a doctor for this purpose. Euthanasia, better known as physician assisted suicide, is currently only available in five states in the United States, along with many other countries including Australia, Belgium, and India. Those who qualify for assisted suicide must be diagnosed with terminal illnesses, however the laws regarding the details are left up to the states to decide. This topic has been debated since the 1990s and is still very controversial. Euthanasia should be available in all states for people with a terminal illnesses and/or irreversible chronic pain. People deserve the right

Anticipatory Suffering is depression or suffering that accompanies fear of death and fear of inevitable suffering that comes with death. Everyone wants and deserves to die with a sense of dignity and sanity. Annette Childs, PhD, psychotherapist, said, "I am a passionate advocate of Death with Dignity type legislation. A passionate advocate not because I believe we should be rushing people off to the grave or because I do not respect the sanctity of life. My strong advocacy comes from knowing what a powerful medicine a sense of control over one’s destiny imparts.” One can control how they live so why not be able to control how they die. And in circumstances where one is not terminally ill and has chronic pain, the same should apply. Living a lifetime full of excruciating pain is the worst suffering one can imagine. Contentment is a natural human right and everyone deserves the right to it, even if that is through death. Stephen Hawking, PhD, cosmologist and theoretical physicist, stated: "I think those who have a terminal illness or are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their lives and those that help them should be free from prosecution. We don’t let animals suffer, so why humans?" A person's choice to end their life and their suffering should be left up to them, and only them, to

A patient signs a form requesting to end their life in the instance a procedure goes wrong or if extreme measures need to be taken to keep them alive. A doctor must respect their wishes and pull the plug. This is very common in the medicine field and is not seen as controversial to most. “In another study, only 40% of US physicians believed they would never override a DNR order or provide CPR they deemed futile...”(BMJ journals). How are the ethics of a DNR any different from Euthanasia? Doctors or government officials do not have the right to control what happens to another human’s body, its as simple as