Physician Assisted Suicide



Physician Assisted Suicide

Advances in medical technology have produced ethical dilemmas that people at any other time have confronted. The most imperative is, "how far do we go to save lives?" Today, compassion and common sense have been taken over by machines and technology. More than ever, there is an urge to change the rules.

Legalizing physician-assisted suicide would create a "slippery-slope" to euthanasia. Euthanasia is defined as the practice of terminating the life of a person or animal in a painless or minimally painful way in order to prevent suffering or other undesired conditions in life (Euthanasia). Loosening the ...