Physician Assisted Suicide Thesis

Introduction:
Throughout the progression of American History one of our nation’s most pressing concerns lie in the discussion around proper healthcare for all. The economic component of healthcare remains, and the burden of medical bills are existent in today’s money driven society. The great economic healthcare debate “began with a dual mandate: to expand benefits and to contain costs. As the debate progressed, talk of cost containment faded. Hard choices about limiting how much healthcare we can have weren't considered”(Danforth 1).This brought up the question of an alternative to cut healthcare costs.Within this argument lies a fairly new discussion centered around the topic of Physician-Assisted suicide and the question around its legality.

The moral question of whether or not it should be legal is an issue too complex to attack with a thesis of one sentence but we believe Doctor assisted suicide should be legalized. However, the most effective way to confront this issue would be to create distinct boundaries between physical pain and economic struggles and the extent of an individual’s experience with their health related problems. If physical pain translates to a terminally ill issue in which the life of the patient is simply being prolonged, a request regarding a suicide assisted by a doctor should be taken into account, properly analyzed and accepted if the circumstances are aligned. The economic component of a physician assisted suicide should not be taken into account however, the economic burden of keeping alive our patients who are on the brink of death should be noticed and

To look at the case solely from an economic perspective would be to completely neglect morality and ethics ultimately eliminating the significance of this essay. Meaning for example, a terminally ill patient requesting a suicide assisted by a doctor solely because he or she is not not financially equipped to cover the bills would essentially be killing the patient not based on their will to live but concerns regarding debt. While medical bills piling up should not be the determining factor as to why the patient decides to end his or her life, it is immoral and unethical to be forced to pay extra medical bills and pump unnecessary loads of financial savings out of an unfulfilled consumer when their preferred route of death would be to end their misery. When we understand the significance of free will in situations such as this, and attending to the needs of patients, then the argument around the legalization of a physician assisted Suicide for adults over the age of 18 will shift gears and take a toll for the