Argumentative Essay On Assisted Suicide

With the discussion of assisted suicide being a viral topic, there are many different opinions whether or not people are for or against it. As for me, I am against assisted suicide. Assisted suicide is currently legal in five states including Oregon, Vermont, Washington, California, and Montana. Methods in the way it is done may vary from state to state, but I still believe any type of assisted suicide is wrong. In the article “Always Care, Never Kill: How Physician-Assisted Suicide Endangers the Weak, Corrupts Medicine, Compromises the Family, and Violates Human Dignity and Equality,” it states that allowing physician-assisted suicide would be a big mistake for the four following reasons: “first, it would endanger the weak and vulnerable.

This meaning once it becomes legal, people who were hiding in the shadows about suicide will come out and think it is ok to do what they are doing. They might think, now I don’t have to do it myself, I can have someone else do it for me. In states where assisted suicide is legal, safeguards trying to minimize the risk of it have been proved incompetent and have often been eliminated over time, therefore; with assisted suicide being legal, the opinions of those who disagree with it get pushed under the rug and are never

Assisted suicide in this case would sabotage true compassion. This would cause an increase in viewing elderly or disabled family members as burdens, and viewing oneself as a burden for even thinking this way. Although I may not agree with this statement, only because I could never and would never think that way about any one of my family members, it makes one think that there are people out there who would think like that, and would think that their grandmother is a burden. This could follow with family issues and many problems within one’s family, especially if not everyone agrees with what you are