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Introduction
History
Issues
Benefits
Conclusion
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Physician assisted suicide
Physician assisting patients to end their lives enable these individuals to stop their suffering and ensure them that death will be on their terms with dignity, and in peace.
Since the beginning of medical practice, requests to end their suffering through using physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia have been reported. Based on recent studies, 57 percent of physicians practicing in the United States today at some points have received a request for physician-assisted suicide in one form or another.
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history
The first thing that comes to people’s mind when the word “assisted suicide or euthanasia” is mentioned, it was a long battle and controversy that started in the year of 1938. Euthanasia Society of America (ESA) was founded by the Rev. Charles Potter in New York.
In the year 1994, Oregon was the first state that considers assisted suicide; however, the “Death with Dignity Act” was narrowly approved by voters.
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In the 1990s, Jack Kevorkian (1928-2011) also referred to as “Doctor Death” assist the death of Janet Adkins, who has early stages of Alzheimer’s disease. Kevorkian, advocate right to die, attempted to further his cause by euthanizing a terminally man on videotape in 1998 and providing the footage to the CBS television show 60 minutes. After continuing to assist at least 130 people’s deaths, Kevorkian was arrested and found guilty of second-degree murder and sentenced to 10-25 years behind bars in Michigan.
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Corrupts the practice of medicine
Physician-assisted suicide is a form of murder that gives a doctor the power to aid patients, most of them suffering from terminal illnesses, the right to end their lives to escape the pain. In many cases, the patient always permits the doctor to carry out such procedures even though in rare cases, family members can also choose to go that way if the patient has no chance of surviving.
Distorts physician-patient relationship
Patients’ trust in doctors is significantly reduced, and doctors have an undivided commitment to the healing process of their patients. It presents loopholes that affect the commitment of the doctor to the well-being of the patient. John Finnis says that when a such change in the law is allowed, doctors will always have second thoughts about the process of healing.
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The Benefits
DIE WITH DIGNITY
Patients should earn the right to choose when to end their pain and suffering.
PATIENT AUTONOMY
Patients accustomed to making their own health care decisions throughout life should also be permitted to control the circumstances of their deaths.
SAFE MEDICAL PRACTICE
Aid in dying is lauded by advocates for being a safe medical practice – that is, doctors can ensure death in a way that suicide by other means cannot.
CONCLUSION
A private choice to die with dignity or to live has no right to be judged. As a society, we have the free will to the decision on what we desire and options to walk through, however, having options does not always mean exercising them.
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references
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