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Physician Assisted Suicide Persuasive Essay

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Elisabeth Kübler-Ross author of On Death and Dying quotes,“Lots of dying patients say they grow in bounds and leaps and finish all there unfinished business, assisted suicide is cheating them of these lessons, like taking a student out of school before a final exam. It’s not love, it’s protecting unfinished business.” Physicians are given too much power being able to prescribe this drug, and it crosses an extreme amount of ethical lines. Assisted suicide should be demolished because doctors are supposed to save others, it decreases the value of human life, and the drug could be abused. As young adults we have always been taught to never give up, but doctors feel its fine to give up on a helpless, yet living human body. New York Times author Michael Gonchar argues, “Aren't doctors supposed to save lives?” Michael makes a valid point, doctors are useless if they can give this drug to cancer patients. Drugs have changed the world, they were invented to help and cure others. They have changed to deadly killing machines, …show more content…

Wesley .J Smith defends “Assisted suicide isn’t ‘choice;’ it is the end of all choices, Doctor prescribed death is not ‘death with dignity’ it is really the euthanasia of hope” The argument Mr. Smith made is that there is no value in life if you die with choice, A breathing body is worth more than euthanasia. As Dr. Merrill Mathews notes “Physician-suicide is an effect to save money so that others can benefit....” (number 7 health care spending implications). John Ruskin follows with “A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money”. The kindness of life is worth more then money will ever, the value of life is more than the value of money, items or places. Saying that you can kill men and women that are trying to survive just to save money is disappointing. Money is worth nothing compared to human life, also abusing the drug is also not worth

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