“First do no harm”, is the quote that is used over and over to support both sides of the debate over Euthanasia or Physician-Assisted Suicide. I dare to ask you one simple question, “How would you want you individual rights to live or no live to be determined?” Should an ancient oath written between 460 -380 B.C. determine your faith; or should your beliefs, wants and wishes rule your outcome? Do your life rally belong to you or can a judge, social society, medical team, legal team, and/or a jury of peers control more of your life than you. I say, “YES” physician-assisted suicide should be legal in all fifty states.
In 2003 a study found that 11 percent of physicians surveyed (1,902 total) would, under assured circumstances, be willing to accelerate a patient's death by prescribing medication, and that 7 percent would oversee a lethal injection, regardless of both acts being illegal at the time of the survey. This is proof that some doctors understand that the rights of
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5, 2008, Washington became the second US state to legalize physician-assisted suicide after voters approved a ballot initiative (59% to 41%) to implement the Washington Death with Dignity Act. And in recent years physician-assisted suicide is legal in four US states: Oregon, Washington, Montana, and Vermont. And just two years earlier the US Supreme Court voted 6-3 to uphold the ability of physicians to prescribe lethal doses of controlled substances to terminally ill patients. People have rights as an individual to receive great complete care; and this care includes mind, body and soul. In some ancient cities, it was said that, magistrates kept a supply of poison for anyone who wished to die regardless of religious beliefs. Individual beliefs and concerns should mean more the society’s’ beliefs when it comes down to physician-assisted suicide; the individual is the one that have to live the life not me or you, so stop letting your beliefs and wishes control someone else’s