Physician Assisted Suicide Arguments

If you had the chance, wouldn’t you want to be remembered as the person you once were; happy and healthy? Well, my grandma never got that chance. My grandma was 64 when she was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. The doctors said she only had eight months to live. During those eight months my family and I watched as the cancer destroyed her body from the inside out. My grandma was suffering and there was nothing we could do. Physician assisted suicide could have helped end my grandma’s pain and that’s why it should be legalized in Texas. Most people feel like physician assisted suicide violates the Hippocratic oath that doctors make when they become doctors. The first promise they make when taking this oath is to do everything in their power to help the patient live. The Hippocratic oath states,” I will never give a deadly drug to anybody if asked, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect.” By allowing physician assisted suicide we will be decreasing the value of human life and legalizing murder. Granted, when I first read that physician assisted suicide violated the Hippocratic oath, I didn’t want to support it either.

They think that doctors may not consider all options because they will be focused on getting to the next patient instead of doing all they can for this dying patient. Doctors might even offer euthanasia to less financially stable patients instead of treatment that could help prolong the patient’s life because the cost would be a lot cheaper. Doctors are still, no matter what, required to do all they can to save a patient. Doctors want to save lives; they are going to treat everyone the same the best they can. Furthermore, even though euthanasia may be a better option financially it is always up to the patients and their families what they want to