Unbearable Pain No-one wants to have a loved one spend their last days in unbearable pain, the very idea horrifies us. The issue of unbearable pain and suffering has been used as a reason why euthanasia and/or assisted suicide should be legalized. Doctors experienced in pain management and palliative care dispute this perception. For example a 94-year-old woman that for many months she had been bedridden, unable to feed herself and in severe pain from a hip fracture she refused to have repaired. With increasing urgency she had pleaded with her doctor to end her life.
The Supreme Court has ruled that there is a difference between an individual refusing treatment and physician-assisted suicide (). When an individual refuses treatment they are asking to die of natural causes without any help from their doctors, like refusing medicine or having a feeding tube removed so that you starve to death. To me refusing treatment is a lot more inhumane, painfully and a horrendous way to die. If you have trained physician who knows how to end your life in a pain free, quick and dignified way, there is no reason to suffer through natural causes. In the United States Oregon, Washington and Montana have a Death with Dignity Act that allows physician
Today, euthanasia is legal in Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Washington state, and Oregon. An exploration into the reasons for making it legal will help the reader understand why this very personal decision should be a choice, incurring no legal ramifications for anyone involved with the service. Public policy and the law must change to allow doctors, relatives, and loved ones to directly and intentionally help end another person’s life, should the patient deem it necessary. There are several reasons a person may want to end their life: extreme unbearable suffering with no prospect of improvement, liberation from a low quality of life, and an exhaustion of the use of palliative care. It is up to the individual country or state to define these parameters, and in all of these countries, medically assisted suicide is illegal and prosecutable by law.
Should a terminally ill patient be allowed to commit physician-assisted suicide? The main dispute to the issue of a terminally ill patient’s ability to commit physician-assisted suicide is their basic right to be able to die with dignity. They want the right to be able to go beyond the refusal of treatment when their suffering becomes intolerable. They would like the opportunity to end their suffering in a humane way and on their own terms. Additionally, no one has directly asked sick, let alone terminally ill, patients whether having euthanasia or PAS available as an option would be reassuring (Emanuel, 1999).
All others will be annihilated. Hell does not exist.” Jehovah Witnesses do not belive that hell fire exist and that a loving God would punish his people by placing them in hell for enternity. However in our bible, it clearly states that drunks, sinners, and even adulterers will not enter the kingdom of heaven. Now moving on to the practices and traditions of the Jehovah witnesses. This religion doesn’t take part in any war, voting, blood transfusions, homosexuality, no use of crosses, no Easter Sunday, no premarital sex, no gambling or drinking ,no abortion and not even birthdays.
Why? Because deontology is the only view that places a strong moral argument against the application of physician assisting patients in suicide. I fully believe that some things are just morally wrong and murder in any form is wrong on all levels and regardless of any circumstances, in my opinion there is no reason strong enough to condone killing... I can be sympathetic to those who are suffering as well the physicians that may feel empathy for their patients. But I do not feel that any one person should be able to determine life or death.
The right to life holds jurisdiction over the right to death. As demonstrated in the Vacco vs. Quill which ruled that, “there is no federal constitutional equal protection fight to assisted suicide” alluding to the fact that assisted suicide does not infringe on any type of law. Society accepts the need to euthanize violent criminals and animals yet, considers active/voluntary euthanasia a taboo. Hypocrisy mustn’t run amuck in America, we must contain its ideals and terminate them once
It would be hypocritical for anyone to contribute to a physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia because the American culture mourns and then celebrates ones death anniversary: “We do seem to value life since we mourn and celebrate our loved ones anniversary deaths. Then we select this option and end one’s life, it just does not seem morally correct” (The Reality). Does it really make sense to help kill that patient then? Yes, some would argue that a wish to die with dignity should be honored if we love someone; however, they should still not let that loved one die. They should not because with the new age that humanity is in, there a lot more ways to go about helping this loved one.
Physician Assisted Suicide PHI 103 Michael Pankrast Jennifer Eidem February 20, 2013 Allowing laws to pass that sanction assisted suicide has become a strong moral controversy that dates back to the ancient Greeks, and has now become a significant topic which is a concern to many people throughout the United States. Two sides are present within this action; opponents to assisted suicide would argue that no one has the right to take life except God. However, proponents to assisted suicide argue that many patients, who are terminally ill, suffer so severely, or patients who suffer with suicidal tendencies can use this possible legalization to end their lives, should be given the option to opt out of the
The Argument Essay: Yes to Medically Assisted Suicide! Terminally-ill people should have the right to medically assisted suicide. A person should have the choice of deciding whether or not they want to continue living if they know they only have a lifetime of pain and suffering ahead of them. Medically assisted suicide will not be the first choice a patient receives to fight their terminal illness; it will be the last resort if all else is futile. Many people are against medically assisted suicide because they feel it goes against a doctor’s code of ethics but not allowing a patient to have options is unfair to them; let them decide what they want for themselves.