Research Paper On Physician Assisted Suicide

18 September 2015

Physician Assisted Suicide: A Necessary Evil

Physician assisted suicide, also known as euthanasia, is when a person willingly ends their life with intake of lethal drugs administrated by a doctor. PAS was first established in the United States in 1997. Currently, there is only five states that allow euthanasia. Those states consist of Oregon, Washington, Vermont, New Mexico and Montana. Even though most people believe that physician assisted suicide is immoral, euthanasia should be legal in all states because it allows people to die with dignity and all people who are terminally ill that are suffering from agonizing pain should have the power to determine when they are ready pass.

Brittany Maynard was a twenty nine year old

But I support any one who choses PAS as an option. My grandmother’s sister passed away ten years ago from cancer. She suffered a great deal towards the end of her life. I believe if she had the option of euthanasia, she would have put her pain to rest.

Physician assistant suicide is an evil necessary. It’s sad that a person would willingly chose to end their life. But, if the pain they are experiencing makes them want to, why let them suffer? PAS allows people pass peacefully and pass with dignity. We are living in a pro-choice era so why not allow someone to make the choice of when they lay to rest. Like many others, Brittany Maynard went through serve pain before her death. PAS put an end to that, so why not let many others in Maynard’s situation have that option. That option to end their brutal pain.

Works Cited

Emanuel, Ezekiel J. “What Is the Great Benefit of Legalizing Euthanasia or Physician – Assisted Suicide?” (1999): 629-642. Print.

Bever, Lindsey. “Brittany Maynard, as promised, ends her life at 29” The Washington Post. District of Columbia: Fred Ryan, 2014. Print.

Compassionate Choices. “A New Video for my Friends”. Online video clip. Compassionate Choices, October 29th 2014. Web. September 17,