Physician Assisted Suicide Pros And Cons

In The United States of America, only six states have physician-assisted suicide (PAS) legalized. California, Colorado, Oregon, Vermont, Washington, and Washington D.C. have physician-assisted suicide legalized via legislation. However, the state of Montana has physician-assisted suicide legal via court ruling only. Physician-assisted suicide has been a popular topic recently due to Brittany Maynard, who had to move from California, which did not have physician-assisted suicide legal at the time, to the state of Oregon, where it was legal. She moved because she had brain cancer, and wanted to end her life peacefully at home, surrounded by family, instead of dying slowly in a hospital. Physician-assisted suicide should be legal in every state

Morality is defined as the distinction between right and wrong, or good and bad behavior. It is technically not right for someone to commit suicide, they are giving up on life and feel as if there is no better way out, it is seen as weakness, and it is against many people’s morals. However, PAS and regular suicide are completely different things. Most of the time, people who commit PAS do it to simply make sure they won't have to suffer from the pain they have no control over. They do it because there is no other option, that could also be argued for regular suicide, but some also argue that suicidal tendencies can be cured. They can be cured through counseling, love, support, and a strong support system. However, with a patient dying from a rare disease or medical condition, there is no solution to make them better, science and medicine are failing them. They are stuck the way they are, and they simply want to end their lives before the pain becomes so unbearable that they can't open their eyes or enjoy their last days on earth. Almost all patients who have completed PAS claimed that they would rather live their lives pain-free and end their own life before pain arrived than sit in agony waiting for the pain to arrive. They want the right to end their own life. So, is this immoral? According to René Girard, “The experience of death is going to get more and more painful, contrary to what many people believe. The forthcoming euthanasia will make it more rather than less painful because it will put the emphasis on a personal decision in a way which was blissfully alien to the whole problem of dying in former times. It will make death even more subjectively intolerable, for people will feel responsible for their own deaths and morally obligated to rid their relatives of their unwanted presence. Euthanasia will further intensify all the problems its advocates think it will solve.” ― René Girard. From this point