Physician-Assisted Suicide
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Physician-Assisted Suicide
Imagine yourself lying on a hospital bed. Your breathing is raged and you body is in agonizing pain. You try to move, but the pain hits you full force. You hear the door open and footsteps walking to your bed. You try to move your head, but the pain is unbearable. Thankfully the voice you hear is the voice of your doctor telling you about the progress of your illness. He greets you warmly and asks about your day, how you felt, and if there are any changes. An eerie silence falls in the room and you adjust your eyesight to see your doctor having a look of regret in his eyes. “I have the pills that you requested,” he says. He comes to your side and looks you in the eye. “I’ve already had your family sign the legal forms and now it’s up to you to decide.” He places his hand on your shoulder and sighs. “I’m not forcing you to do this; I want you to think about it.” He heads to the door and turns, “I wish I could have done more for you. I feel like I have already failed you as a Doctor.” He walks out the door and you are alone again. You think to yourself about all that’s happening and you ask yourself. Are you ready to die?
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 which 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...
Imagine yourself lying on a hospital bed. Your breathing is raged and you body is in agonizing pain. You try to move, but the pain hits you full force. You hear the door open and footsteps walking to your bed. You try to move your head, but the pain is unbearable. Thankfully the voice you hear is the voice of your doctor telling you about the progress of your illness. He greets you warmly and asks about your day, how you felt, and if there are any changes. An eerie silence falls in the room and you adjust your eyesight to see your doctor having a look of regret in his eyes. “I have the pills that you requested,” he says. He comes to your side and looks you in the eye. “I’ve already had your family sign the legal forms and now it’s up to you to decide.” He places his hand on your shoulder and sighs. “I’m not forcing you to do this; I want you to think about it.” He heads to the door and turns, “I wish I could have done more for you. I feel like I have already failed you as a Doctor.” He walks out the door and you are alone again. You think to yourself about all that’s happening and you ask yourself. Are you ready to die?
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 which 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...