Physician Assisted Suicide

Dying well assisted suicide and End of life care

Abstract

In this study, we try to explore the concept of “Physician Assisted Suicide” in a holistic context. The main focus of the research is on Physician Assisted Suicide and its favors and against arguments. The research also analyzes many aspects of Physician Assisted Suicide and tries to gauge its effect on the arguments in favor and against of it.

Table of Contents

Abstract2

Outline4

Introduction5

Description and Analysis5

Arguments for Decriminalization or Legalization6

Arguments against Decriminalization8

Conclusion9

References11

Outline



Introduction: This section has given the information of what the assisted suicide is and that it is also known as euthanasia.

Description and Analysis: This part has thoroughly describes the consequences of physician assisted suicide.

Arguments for Decriminalization or Legalization: This section has provided the arguments in favor of legalizing the physician assisted suicide and has given various advantages of it.

Arguments against Decriminalization: This part is about the arguments against the physician assisted suicide of why it should not be permissible.

Conclusion: This is about whatever is discussed in the paper. It is the overall central idea of the paper.

Dying well assisted suicide and End of life care

Introduction

Is suicide immoral? Granted, it might cause pain to many individuals, but if it saves the suicide from a lifetime of pain, might this outweigh the pain the action causes? The concept of animal euthanasia inspired this thought. If a dog is in great pain, we put it down, yet regardless of how much pain a person is in, destroying their life is viewed as immoral. This could be justified in that a human life is worth more than the dog's life, but doesn't that also mean that the human's pain is more significant than that of the animal?

The World Medical Association considered it unethical and condemns both assisted suicide and euthanasia. On the other hand, recommends palliative care.

Euthanasia is the deliberate act of ending a patient's life, though whether by choice or at the request of relatives, is unethical. This does not preclude the physician from respecting the patient's desire to let the natural process of death to follow its course in the terminal phase of their illness.

Description and Analysis

Physician-assisted suicide, also known as PAS, is a practice where a Physician or Doctor provides a patient with medication that the patient requested by choice to end their own life. Most people tend confuse Physician-assisted suicide with Euthanasia is the intentional killing by act or omission of a dependant person for their alleged benefit. The difference that people tend to overlook is that Euthanasia is an intentional act of killing that is forced upon a person and PAS is not. It usually is a normal reaction when people hear about PAS that they automatically think about suicide, but it should not be pushed into the same category. It is the patient's choice to make this decision and not the doctors. Physician-assisted suicide should be legal in all states because the right to a good death is a basic human ...