The right to die on when diagnosed with a terminal illness.
The gift of life is the most valuable gift we receive, with that the responsibility to be able to make your own choice between ending your own life after diagnosis with a terminal illness or suffering an indescribable death. I believe that The Right To Die is ethical because, Physician assisted suicide is a compassionate response to unbearable suffering that results from terminal illness. I understand this is a very conversional topic and in my early years my views were opposite. My job and life experience opened my mind to alleviating the suffering that comes with the dying process in the setting of an aggressive terminal illness.
British philosopher Jeremy Bentham is known as …show more content…
However it is a compassionate response to unbearable suffering that results from terminal illness. The four basic principles to bioethicists are Autonomy, Justice, Beneficence, and Non-maleficence. Autonomy requires that the patient have autonomy of thought, intention, and action when making decisions regarding health care procedures. Therefore, the patient must be of sound mind and be able to make a fully informed decision without coercion or coaxing. Justice is the tricky part, a physician has the obligation to obey established legislation. If the physician disregards the law he or she can be brought up on criminal charges, i.e. Dr. Jack Kevorkian who was convicted of second-degree murder and served eight years of a 10-to-25-year prison sentence (WIKI). There are 5 states that have legal physician assisted suicide laws CA, OR, VT, WA, and MT (WIKI). There are clear concise laws that outline how physician assistant suicide is to be performed. My personal opinion is even though I feel strongly for physician assistant suicide I don’t believe there should be a federal law for physician-assisted suicide. This legislation should be left up solely to the states per the Tenth Amendment. Even thou I believe that physician-assisted suicide should be left up to the patient and the physician there needs to be some type of regulations involved. Beneficence requires that the procedure be provided with the intent of doing good …show more content…
I would hope that giving the patient a choice of legalized assisted suicide will make the terminally ill patients ' lives more meaningful. Our attention must always be focused on life, and our efforts must always be toward improving it. However our compassion and human understanding should guide death with dignity for each
The gift of life is the most valuable gift we receive, with that the responsibility to be able to make your own choice between ending your own life after diagnosis with a terminal illness or suffering an indescribable death. I believe that The Right To Die is ethical because, Physician assisted suicide is a compassionate response to unbearable suffering that results from terminal illness. I understand this is a very conversional topic and in my early years my views were opposite. My job and life experience opened my mind to alleviating the suffering that comes with the dying process in the setting of an aggressive terminal illness.
British philosopher Jeremy Bentham is known as …show more content…
However it is a compassionate response to unbearable suffering that results from terminal illness. The four basic principles to bioethicists are Autonomy, Justice, Beneficence, and Non-maleficence. Autonomy requires that the patient have autonomy of thought, intention, and action when making decisions regarding health care procedures. Therefore, the patient must be of sound mind and be able to make a fully informed decision without coercion or coaxing. Justice is the tricky part, a physician has the obligation to obey established legislation. If the physician disregards the law he or she can be brought up on criminal charges, i.e. Dr. Jack Kevorkian who was convicted of second-degree murder and served eight years of a 10-to-25-year prison sentence (WIKI). There are 5 states that have legal physician assisted suicide laws CA, OR, VT, WA, and MT (WIKI). There are clear concise laws that outline how physician assistant suicide is to be performed. My personal opinion is even though I feel strongly for physician assistant suicide I don’t believe there should be a federal law for physician-assisted suicide. This legislation should be left up solely to the states per the Tenth Amendment. Even thou I believe that physician-assisted suicide should be left up to the patient and the physician there needs to be some type of regulations involved. Beneficence requires that the procedure be provided with the intent of doing good …show more content…
I would hope that giving the patient a choice of legalized assisted suicide will make the terminally ill patients ' lives more meaningful. Our attention must always be focused on life, and our efforts must always be toward improving it. However our compassion and human understanding should guide death with dignity for each