The Pros And Cons Of Assisted Suicide

In recent discussions assisting suicide has been brought up, a controversial issue has been whether to make assisting suicide remain illegal or to push it to go against the law. On the one hand, some argue that suicide in general without assistants is illegal, which is correct. On the other hand, however, others argue that assisting suicide can also be used in a court of law as homicide. In sum, then, the issue is assisting suicide as well as with suicide itself should remain illegal; no one should have the courage to take their own life. While some believe assisted suicide should become legal, assisted suicide along with individual suicide is not the way to solve problems, psychiatric help can make a positive and negative impact on a person’s

The author of the article ASSISTED SUICIDE quotes “An assisted suicide is one in which a second party, usually a doctor, furnishes drugs and instructions to the person planning to take his or her life. With active euthanasia, it is the doctor who administers the lethal drug dose. Since it is tantamount to homicide, active euthanasia is illegal in every state. But few U.S. doctors who perform it have been brought to trial, and none has ever been convicted and imprisoned” (Assisted Suicide). This author is proving at this very moment it is illegal to perform assisted suicide and can become imprisoned for this action. The article CHOOSING DEATH: ASSISTED SUICIDE-- THREE LIVES, THREE JOURNEYS quotes, “Sometime this decade--perhaps in Oregon or Washington or Michigan--voters will take control at the ballot box, and the first state will open the door to physician-assisted death” (Choosing Death: Assisted Suicide—Three Lives, Three Journeys). The article is simply meaning that within the next few years, certain states will take the action and make assisted suicide legal. It starts with one, then moves to two, then three, then the whole country will have made physician assisted suicide a legal