Legalizing Physician-Assisted Suicide

¨ Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations is the first religious group to pass in favor of Euthanasia for the terminally ill¨ ( Leading Issue Timelines, 2017, p. 8¨. The terminally ill should have the right to know if they are going to be allowed to end their lives if the fighting gets hard and to unbearable. They do not want to give up just to be on the road of a slow and possibly painful death. ¨ Between physician and patient concerning a request for assisted suicide be witnessed by two adults¨ ( Yale Kamisar, 1998, p. 6). The doctor´s are not going to just inject the patient with the killing drug.

Certainly in ancient times it was quite common for doctors to kill their patients with various poisonous preparations and this posed enormous problems with regard to medical practice (ProCon ). Historically it would appear that the issue of euthanasia did not become an issue of serious note again until relatively modern times when two Germans in 1920 published a book called "The Release of the Destruction of Life Devoid of Value." The authors were Dr. Karl Binding. The arguments that they used are just the same as those used today, namely, that of compassion. They said it was barbarous that a person has to die from his pain; that it is permissible to shorten the act of dying and that people have a right to death with dignity().

That may be the reason why the ability to decreases the value of human life shouldn’t be in the hand of humans. Assisted suicide can open the floodgates for anyone to medically end their life even if they are not ill. Also this proposes a culture and religions problem. To commit suicide will give you a one-way ticket to hell. Consequently, it is harder on love ones to know where you may spend eternity. Is there really dignity in taking your own life?

Assisted suicide brings a debate that involves professional, legal and ethical issues about the value of the liberty versus the value of life. However, before conceive an opinion about this topic is necessary know deeply its concept. Assisted suicide is known as the act of ending with the life of a terminal illness patients for end with their insupportable pain. Unlike euthanasia, the decision is not made by the doctor and their families, but by the patient. Therefore, doctors should be able to assist the suicide of their patients without being accused of committing a criminal offense.

Respectively, the first three types refer to the person administering euthanasia, while the last thr... ... middle of paper ... ...le, that a doctor let an otherwise healthy patient die who was suffering from a routinely curable illness; this would count as an intentional killing, even though it was done passively.” (Fieser, 2011) On a much more minor scale, it is similar to insulting someone by not shaking his or her hands. To reiterate, Rachels point is to allow active euthanasia not only because there’s no difference between that and passive euthanasia, but also because active euthanasia is more merciful than the latter. According to Fieser, there are also four main arguments opponents of euthanasia have: Wrongfulness of Intentional Killing, Slippery Slope, Possible Recovery, and No Assurance of Voluntariness (2011). In Wrongfulness of Intentional Killing arguments, opponents of euthanasia claim that euthanasia is essentially killing. Killing has been looked down upon throughout century

Euthanasia has a purpose and should be evaluated as humanely filling a void created by our sometimes inhumane modern society. Antithesis Statement Euthanasia is nothing less than cold-blooded killing. Euthanasia cheapens life, even more so than the very divisive issue of abortion. Euthanasia is morally and ethically wrong and should be banned in these United States. Modern medicine has evolved by leaps and bounds recently, euthanasia resets these medical advances back by years and reduces today's Medical Doctors to administrators of death.

Euthanasia, and a common form of euthanasia, assisted suicide, should be legal processes through which terminally-ill patients may voluntarily end his or her own life. Essentially, euthanasia is having a patient sign a waiver agreeing to allow a doctor inject them with toxic fluids that will end suffering and allow people to have a dignified quiet death. This suicidal method is meant only for patients with terminal illnesses. That is, diseases that will eventually kill you, or that cause terrific pain and suffering without killing you anytime soon. Euthanasia has been an extremely controversial topic over the

Secondly, legalising euthanasi... ... middle of paper ... ...espect for the patients’ autonomy and ultimately makes dying with dignity a possible option. I am a proponent of legalising euthanasia globally as I believe it will help not in quantity but in the quality of life of the patients and his or her family members. Works Cited 1. Gallup Poll, Angelfire, Nightingale Alliance. (2013, December 11).

As definition states, assisted suicide is the suicide of a patient suffering from an incurable disease. Assisted suicide originated so that a terminally ill patient could be aided with his/her intentions of suicide. (Webster, 2011) Also to give the patient an opportunity to die on their own terms. Euthanasia also plays a key role in assisted suicide. Euthanasia has to be required by a conscious patient suffering from an irreversible affliction inducing physical and/or psychological suffering, with no hope for improvement or for rapid spontaneous death; request for euthanasia has to be written by the patient or by his (her) representative who has no interest in the patient death.

The writer feels that life is something that is valuable, even when people can't move around themselves, or can't do all things for themselves. Life isn't just something that everyone inherits. People were given life for a reason, and whether that reason is to work through a terminal illness or to make it through life without any health problems, nobody should be able to choose their time of death. Someone who fights through a terminal illness dies with more dignity than someone who takes the easy way out does.