On November 4, 2008, the Washington Death with Dignity Act was passed, becoming the second state, pattering itself after Oregon. December of 2008, after Montana District court Judge, Dorothy McCarter ruled in the Baxter V. Montana case that a terminally-ill patient who finds his/her suffering too “unbearable” has the right to receive self-administered medication to hasten death. Since the law went into effect in 1998, about 40 people a year have taken their own life this way. Last year 60 individuals out of 88 who received the prescriptions from their doctors took their lives. The most common argument raised by proponents of physician-Assisted suicide, is that people should not endure suffering; they have the right to die with dignity, and their autonomy should be respected by law.
The first step to banning drugs was the Pure Food and Drug Act. This required patent medicines to label all of the ingredients in their products. Many of the smaller businesses were bankrupted because of this act but over hundreds of thousands of addicts remained. Companies like Coca-Cola almost were shut down because they didn’t want to stop putting Cocaine into their product (Johnson). The next step to banning drugs was the Heroin Tax Act.
In the article “Methamphetamine: Are Tougher Anti-Meth Laws Needed?” Rusty Payne, spokesman for United States Drug Enforcement Administration, says, “Parents are consumed with getting their next high, they completely neglect everything around them, including their children.” When a meth user comes off of the high meth produces, often times they sleep for days on end. While in the process of coming off a meth high, a mother let her seven month old drown. Methamphetamine can enter a child’s bloodstream from coming in contact with someone cooking or smoking meth. When officers searched meth labs in 2003, seventy percent of children had toxic chemicals in their system. Children who come in contact with methamphetamine on a daily basis can develop cancer or liver, kidney, spleen, or brain damage.
Physician Assisted Suicide Why is it only ethical to die “naturally”, after a long illness filled with highly “un-natural” life extending medical procedures? Over the last twenty years, physician assisted suicides have become a sensitive issue in governmental offices as whether to legalize such an option. Even though many religions prohibit suicide and the intentional killing of others, and some believe it violates a portion of a doctors’ Hippocratic Oath, Physician Assisted Suicide should be a legal option for those with terminal diseases or conditions because reasonable laws can be constructed which prevent abuse and still protect the value of human life. Physician assisted suicide is the voluntary termination of one's own life by administration
ASSISTED SUICIDE Dorothy Hasselmann CJUS 400 OCTOBER 8, 2014 LIBERTY UNIVERSITY J.SANDERS ASSISTED SUICIDE The topic “Is Assisted Suicide right or wrong? 1. Introduction A. This professional chose this topic because you hear allot of people dying from assisted suicide than with just one committing suicide and I wanted to research on this to see on how much information I can gather from Assisted Suicide. The laws that concern with assisted suicide are: It varies from state to state.
The organization MADD was created in large part due to Candy Lightner’s daughter being killed in 1980. Clarence Busch was the man responsible and it was found that he had a record of arrests for intoxication. Candy Lightner learned from an officer that at the time there were no harsh punishments for drunk driving and that the offender was more than likely not going to spend a lot of time in jail. This prompted Mrs. Lightner to take action against what she later called “the only socially accepted form of homicide
Now retired "Clemson University organic chemist John H. Huffman, a leading scientist in synthetic cannibinoid development, made more than 450 cannibinoid compounds to help advance the treatment of serious ailments like multiple sclerosis, AIDS, and cancer" (Griep, 2013). In an interview with ABC News, Huffman explains that his research apparently fell into the wrong hands, but "doubts that a ban on the substances will keep kids away from it". Organic marijuana has been illegal since 1937, he points out, yet many have completely disregarded those laws. Therefore, prohibition of spice could have a similar outcome. Huffman contrasts the two substances, describing the effects of synthetic cannabinoids as " anecdotal, and comes from things like visits to emergency rooms."
Then there are the people who feel that if people who are suffering have the right to stop life sustaining-treatment then why other suffering patients can’t ask physicians to give them life –ending treatments. Physician assisted suicide has been a big debate here in the America. In 1997 the Us Supreme Court said that there is no constitutional right to physician assisted suicide and the State Legistratures may choose if they want to vote to legalize physician assisted suicide then the Oregon board of Pharmacy put in an order requiring physicians to document if this is for an assisted suicide. In 1999 Oregon became the only US state that voted to legalize physician assisted suicide and in January 1998 one doctor announced his or her participation in the assisted suicide act. There are several countries that currently allow one or the other types of physician assisted suicide.
What about people with disabilities? Who will decide for them? Medical professionals of course agree that the disabled would be exempt. You have to be of sound mind to even consider euthanasia. Professor Suzanne McDermott of USC School of Medicine, Columbia, SC, stated, there will be many states in the next decade that introduce or consider the introduction of laws to legalize assisted suicide.
In world war two the German soldiers who got very serious injuries and mostly would not recover, they let died. Locally, the Republic of Ireland criminalized this action. While in some other countries, as, The United States have three states that legalized euthanasia are Oregon, Washington and Montana states. In 1994, Oregon voters approved the Death with Dignity act (DWDA) by voting of 51%. Since that