The Pros And Cons Of Assisted Suicide

Anyone who has witnessed a person fights a life-threatening illness with no hope of recovery can sympathize with the patient's anguish and loss of will to live if it means more pain and less ability. Should a terminally ill person be able to choose when to lose their life? Some people oppose it for moral and religious reasons, while others support Physician-Assisted Suicide（PAS）, which is the voluntary termination of one’s life through administering a lethal substance with a physician's assistance. Unlike euthanasia, where the physician performs the intervention, PAS involves the physician providing the necessary means and the patient performing the act. Even to this day, when PAS is already legal in a growing number of states of the USA and

Some medical professionals argue that assisted suicide violates the Hippocratic Oath (Esther, 1995); however, the phrase "first do no harm" in the Oath can also apply to aid a patient in finding ultimate relief from pain through death. Amazing marvels in human life extension have been made possible by modern medical research. Respirators can assist a patient's failing lungs, and drugs can maintain their physiological functions. The biggest benefit of science to humanity is medical technology, which improves the chances of survival for those who are truly ill or injured. while for those who are close to death, it is only a way to make their misery last longer. The purpose of medicine is to lessen a patient's suffering. However, the only thing that modern medicine can do for dying patients is to make their suffering worse every day. Not to mention, some life-prolonging measures themselves cause great harm to the human body. For instance, cancer patients are given chemotherapy, a form of radioactive medicine that is poisonous to the body. Chemotherapy causes the body to experience excruciating pain, baldness, nausea, and other very harmful side effects. Under the circumstances(Esther, 1995), PAS is more in keeping with the

The expense is sometimes too high for the family of the terminally sick patient. Only a few wealthy dying patients can afford to have their remaining lives extended in the hospital because human life is expensive. Naturally, the majority of families do not skimp on the expense while the terminally ill patient is still alive. But when that person passes away, the family is left to deal with a considerable hospital bill and is frequently in danger of becoming bankrupt. Most individuals who are close to death want a peaceful, reassuring passing, leaving the family in financial ruin is far from a Consolation. Those patients are unable to keep their families from falling into debt because they have no way of stopping the medical bills from piling up. Only if they have the option of committing suicide can they relieve their families' financial burdens and their own