Argumentative Essay On Doctor Assisted Suicide

The topic of doctor assisted suicide has been under debate for decades. It is a very intriguing and complicated topic as in Canada and many other countries, one has the right to life, but does not have the right to end said life. Doctor assisted suicide is also something one should contemplate because a large part of it is morals, while another substantial piece is numbers and objective facts evolving with economics, and the greater good. Some disagree with the place of morals over pragmatism in such an argument, and some disagree with the place of pragmatism over morals in such a topic. This debate may have been thought to have been put to an end as the law that prevent doctor assisted suicide was found to inappropriate by The Supreme Court of Canada. This ruling does not take effect until next year however, and such a controversial topic will never be put to rest.
The article from The Economist, “The right to die,” argues that the lack of legitimacy when it comes to doctor assisted …show more content…
They are observed through surveys and statistics for example the article states that those who received doctor assisted suicide were “well-educated, insured and receiving palliative care” (“The right to die”) and that in “11 out of the 15 countries [they] surveyed most people favoured extending doctor-assisted dying to patients” (“The right to die”), while also “assisted dying now accounts for about 3% of deaths in the Netherlands” (“The right to die”). Finally the last main point of evidence in the article to support its arguments is that adults are able to make many irreversible changes to their lives except for ending it. From this we can see that the main argument is many people wish for assisted suicide and believe that withholding it is improper, is backed by many proofs which all fall into the belief that people must value