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Pros And Cons Of Physician Assisted Suicide

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Why physician assisted suicide should be illegal

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• Assisted suicide should be illegal because individual is not really asking doctor for assisted suicide out of his/her free will. Person is forced to choose suicide because big business misleads people into unhealthy life styles of eating junk foods and careless smokings with there fancy TV commercials and other media outlets. They tell them to follow flashy lifestyles mindlessly and carelessly. Eventually this kind of persuasion makes them sick and they cannot think straight for themselves, people cannot decide what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is bad for them. Govt. finds it easy to inject them with 35 dollar suicide injection instead of curing them with …show more content…

We are all supposed to follow her. Nature is more powerful then doctors, governments or countries.

• We humans are finest creation of nature. We have developed mind, morals and ethics. We should not misuse over privileges. We should respect life and care for all, all the way to the last breath.

• Man created societies to survive in nature. Now if he starts to create societies that accept suicides as a norm, then eventually he will wipe himself off from the face of this earth. This idea of doctor assisted suicide will become a mass suicide formula for mankind. So it should be illegal and stopped for the good of all humans.

• If countries and governments are allowed to do this illegal act of mass murder, minorities, disables and other weak people in the societies can be easily taken advantage off. So this can lead to discrimination and genocide. So doctor assisted suicide should be illegal.

• All the progress we see today in medicine is made over the centuries by men because doctors wanted to cure sick people. Now if they see it’s easy to get rid of sick people by giving them suicide pills then progress in medicine and medical science will suffer to a complete

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