Assisted suicide Physician assisted suicide is a comfortable way to die instead of suffering from terminal illness. It gives people the chance to make their own choices. Assisted suicide is ethical because it saves family members from suffering, it is more beneficial for health care, and it gives people the right to take control of their life.
Some may argue that assisted suicide is a selfish move because it ultimately plays with the life of another. However, these people do not consider the fact that it is not only selfish, but inhumane to ask another human to live a life of suffrage. Therefore, by forcing patients to live not only are we putting them through the humiliation of constant injections, uncomfortable doctor visits, but we are asking them to endure a life of loneliness and pain. The only right thing to do is support the choices, which patients make with their own bodies. Consequently, the command choice which patients make is assisted suicide. By being given the option of assisted suicide, patients have
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As a result, to keep a terminally ill patient for several months is exceptionally expensive. Therefore, this economic burden will effect the loved ones of patients, leaving patients not only depressed about the condition of their life, but ashamed and guilty about the economic hardship that they are putting their loves ones through. Thus, physician assisted suicide can save people’s money by not forcing someone who doesn't want to be alive, live. Moreover, assisted suicide helps to lower the health care costs for the future generations. If health care cuts the medical treatments for terminally ill patients, younger people will be able to have health insurance and take care of themselves before it’s too late. Physical assisted suicide will help hospitals to become more efficient and will cut all the unnecessary