Essay On Assisted Suicide

The controversial topic of assisted suicide is often considered when dealing with an inoperable or incurable cancer, such as brain or lung cancer. The suffering of these cancers is excruciating and the waiting for death to take away their pain feels like an eternity. Assisted suicide provides an option to illnesses where death is the inevitable outcome. For example, lung cancer eats away at a person’s lungs making it extremely hard or nearly impossible to breath, making each breath feel like it is their hardest. Assisted suicide would end the painful breaths and agonizing last days of their life and end their life peacefully and painlessly. Assisted suicide and euthanasia are often times used when describing when a doctor provides a lethal injection to end a patient’s life. While that is the definition for euthanasia, assisted suicide is when a patient suffering from an incurable disease ends their life by taking of lethal prescription provided by a doctor (Stokely 2). While the terms are very similar, the way in which the patient ends their life is different. Assisted suicide is often debated on ethical, economic, and legal grounds. Assisted suicide should be legalized in all states because it is way for a terminally ill patient to end …show more content…
In some cases that might be true, but when it comes to terminal illnesses, with which assisted suicide would be dealing with, the symptoms as time progresses becomes extremely unbearable and agonizing. Assisted suicide is not suggesting that anyone who wants to can choose this path, but it provides a painless death for patients who meet the strict requirements, which includes a patient having a terminal illness where death is inevitable (Lee & Stingl 3). Therefore, assisted suicide would be providing a way for patients to end their lives when the waiting for a natural death would not be peaceful or painless due to the