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The Pros And Cons Of Assisted Suicide

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People are able to choose what they are able to give life to another, so they should also be able to choose whether they themselves lives or dies. People should figure out if people should be allowed to request assisted suicide, whom should be able to request the assisted suicide, what methods are available, and who would regulate the people who were allowed to receive the treatment, as well as why.
There is a hot topic going around that has led to a serious discussion. Should people be able to request assisted suicide? There are plenty of people that think that the terminally ill should be able to request this life ending decision. “It is a liberty which cannot be denied because those who are dying might want to use this liberty as a way to pursue their happiness.” (The Right to Assisted Suicide) This right to choose when a person dies respects the constitutional rights of life, liberty, and the …show more content…

“The most frequently prescribed medicine is a large dose of a sleeping medication, most commonly a barbiturate, in powder form. It is mixed with about 4 ounces of liquid before you, the person for whom it is prescribed, drink it.” (Death with Dignity) “Currently in Oregon, secobarbital is the medication most commonly prescribed for physician-assisted suicide, followed by pentobarbital. The lethal dose prescribed is typically 9 g of secobarbital in capsules or 10 g of pentobarbital liquid, to be consumed at one time. The contents of the secobarbital capsules or the pentobarbital liquid should be mixed with a sweet substance such as juice to mask the bitter taste.” (Medscape Log in) These methods are painless and the patient doesn’t feel a thing. The concern people have is that it causes pain to the

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The right to assisted suicide is a heavily controversial and debated over topic that concerns people all around the United States. The arguments go back and forth about whether a dying patient has the right to end their life with the assistance of a doctor or physician. Some people are against it because of moral and religious reasons. Others are for it because of their compassions and respect for unhappy patients waiting to die naturally. Assisted suicide is prohibited by common law or criminal statute in all 50 U.S. states; medical aid in dying is specifically authorized in 5 states: Oregon, Washington, Vermont, Montana, and California.

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This is an example of euthanasia, and act where a physician intentionally causes death of a terminally ill patient. More specifically, voluntary and active euthanasia, when a physician is given consent by the patient, and has the intent to cause the patients’ death. Although, physician assisted suicide can be described as an act of self-destruction committed by a patient with the assistance of a physician. In actuality, physician assisted suicide is giving a patient a prescription for a lethal amount of medication that the patient later ingests to bring about death.

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They should also be able to die with dignity and grace. Some think the family or spouse should be able to decide if the patient is unresponsive to medical treatment. They think that that is what the patient would want to put them put them out of their suffering. A con (going against the Catholic Church) of Assisted Suicide is that they say that as Catholic leaders they believe that life is the most basic gift from God. Thinking that it is our moral obligation to care for our own life and health and to seek such care from others recognizes that we are not morally obligated to use all available medical procedures in every set of circumstances.

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Should patients with non-standard reasons such as non-terminal conditions (i.e. pain, disability, depression, free choice and etc.) have the right to end their own lives with physician-assisted suicide? Physician-assisted suicide is a highly emotional and controversial ethical debate on whether patients have rights to end their lives with the lethal drug. A physician-assisted suicide is when a doctor helps a patient who is dying with the aid or instructions on how to commit life-ending acts (Gopal, 2015). In the United States there are five states (i.e. Oregon, Vermont, California, Colorado, Washington and Washington, DC) that legalized physician-assisted suicide but in one state (i.e. Montana) status is in dispute. Five states require an approval upon legislation whereas one state needs approval through a court ruling.

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Furthermore, physicians within the healthcare field serve as a form of hope and can assist with careful judgement and knowledge, and if a patient choices to rely on physician assisted suicide to terminate their own suffering, the healthcare professional should be given the opportunity to take into account the patients free will on the subject matter. Nevertheless, physician assisted suicide, holds sentimental value leading to a clash of different ideas however, I believe it should be legalized within the United States as individuals are allowed the freedom to practice their conventional rights and considering this is a life vs. death situation individuals should be allowed to seek help within their own privacy where government regulation does not play a role (Wong, darthmouth.edu). Additionally, quantity of life vs. quality of life is also associated with the idea of physician assisted suicide and based on my own views on the subject quality of life holds a more significant value within my

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Physician assisted suicide was first introduced to our society in 1997, when the citizens of Oregan voted to legalize this highly controversial practice (Friedman, 2007). At the time, they passed the “Death with Dignity Act, which allowed a terminally ill person meeting certain criteria to end his or her own life with the help of a doctor” (Friedman, 2007). When a patient meets all the requirements needed to undergo physician assisted suicide, he or she will voluntarily take a lethal dosage of medication at their own discretion. According to the 2006 Eight Annual Report on the Death with Dignity Act, only 17 percent of dying patients in Oregan consider physician assisted suicide, but only 2 percent go through with the procedure. Even though

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Assisted suicide is a tough decision that comes down to what you morally believe in. The author of the article “The right to die” believes that doctor assisted suicide should be legalized in more states than just the four that it is. He approaches the topic from an ethical standpoint, stating its rights and wrongs. This essay will include reasons as to why assisted suicide should be legalized, how the system of death should work and if it is morally right. Only in four states is assisted suicide mandated by state law: Oregon, Washington, Vermont and California.

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One well-known law is Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act. This act legally allows physicians to write these prescriptions, without facing any criminal charges. Their patients must meet certain requirements, prior to the consideration of making the medications available

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Physician-assisted suicide should be legal throughout the United States as a lawful medical procedure for able, terminally ill adults with a limited amount of time, because it is a compassionate response to ease the suffering of dying patients and respect their rights and freedom. Currently, Oregon, Montana, New Mexico, Vermont, and Washington have adopted this policy. It is often offensive to call this suicide, because these patients are physically healthy and are not clinically depressed. “Dying patients who see their lives being destroyed by illness sometimes come to view death as the only way to escape their suffering and, therefore, as a means of self-preservation—the opposite of suicide.” (3) For most of these patients, there are no other options but to wait and stay stagnant in their often poor quality of life.

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Even if they don’t choose assisted-suicide, they “still have to die” (The). A person may get old enough and be in a nursing home, ready to end it, but the right to die gives them more control that they may not have in their old age. It gives them the control to when they actually go. In states like Oregon, they have a “Death with Dignity Act” (Assisted). Such things like this gives exactly what it says, ‘death with dignity’.

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The opinions on this subject are divided, but who are we, as human beings, to deny the basic choice of another? When a person’s health has an expiration date already on it, she should be able to make the choice to die with dignity. First of all, there are “three states that provide the physician assisted suicide, they are Oregon, Washington and Vermont” (Introduction to Right to Die: At

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It would be nice to be able to choose where we die, how we die, and why we die. Now we can with assisted suicide, but not all agree on the terms that come with this subject. Many agree that aid-in-dying should be available to those suffering from a terminal illness, but is this process of assisted suicide constitutional? Aid-in-Dying should not be practiced in hospitals because it has a negative effect on others and their families. Aid-in-dying should not be practiced in hospitals because it is unconstitutional.

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Assisted suicide should be legal but with very restrictive guidelines about who can qualify and how it occurs. Firstly, in most countries assisted suicide is neither legal nor illegal but in this limbo of in between because the people cannot come to a consensus. In places where euthanasia is not accepted, people who help others with euthanasia

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Also, what do the family of the people that have this done think? Do they think that was the best choice and do they think it should be

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I believe that the person willing to die in order to quit the suffering must be granted his wish; the contrary is a direct desecration of the person’s human rights. Now as every subject there are exceptions. If one is not able to speak or otherwise show his or her wish to die of assisted suicide, no action should be taken.

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