Doctor-assisted suicide is a controversial topic but what people fail to realize is the real facts of it. Physician-assisted suicide, also known as euthanasia, is quite self-explanatory; it is when a terminally ill person has the physician's help to die. It is not legal in all fifty states, and it should be. It is a hard decision to make and can prevent not the suffering of the sick lives, but the family's life, too. Doctor-assisted suicide should be legal, so terminally ill people can end their suffering, to help end their family’s suffering, and a doctor's job is to take care of their patients.
Doctor-assisted suicide helps the terminally ill end their pain and suffering. Those who are against physician-assisted suicide believe that the ill get pushed into wanting to die, or they assume that miraculously a cure will be made and the ill will regret their choice. Brittany Maynard wanted to live. She wished there was a cure for her glioblastoma. Brittany believed the choice to die is ethical, and what makes it moral is it is a choice.
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“Physician-assisted suicide should be a lawful medical procedure for competent, terminally ill adults because it is a compassionate response to relieve the suffering of dying patients.” (Procon). As said in the quote, it is a compassionate way to reduce the pain and suffering of patients. It sometimes ends up being the doctor giving up on the patient to those who oppose it, but by the point of prescribing the patient the pill, the physician has had tried everything. One of the important parts of their death happening at their own time and with a prescription is the fact that the family and friends of the patient have a less traumatic experience. When they commit suicide, it is without violence and is more peaceful (Marzilli). It prevents their family from having to blame themselves or believe they should have watched over the terminally-ill