“The killing of a disabled person is not “compassionate”. It is not “eusthenia”. It is murder.” This quote was by Stella Young, a disabled person against the issue of assisted suicide being legalized. As CNN.com informs us, “Assisted suicide is illegal in all but five states.” In other words, assisted suicide is currently legal some places and other states are wondering if they should be legalizing it as well. This is a major epidemic in our country. As the quote before states, assisted suicide is not helping anyone, it is merely crime. Sirs Issues Researcher explains the definition of assisted suicide as “The term assisted suicide refers to the practice of a physician prescribing legal drugs that allow terminally ill patients to end their
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While it is often argued that assisted suicide or euthanasia is a right of people to have a choice. One cannot deny that choosing whether you want to die or not is your decision and not the cold blooded type of murder you imagine. Nevertheless, we must make it imperative that assisted suicide is not legal because of the way it is violating the basic tenets of medicine with these purposely lethal drugs. Firstly, as Ira Byock, a writer for Los Angeles Times, informed the public, “People who are disabled or facing life's end can be cared for in ways that allow them to feel respected, worthy and valued.” This declares how prescribing lethal drugs to intentionally end one’s life is not the only option. There are many other basic ways to try and not only help the patient keep fighting, but just to help them enjoy their last days of life. Killing someone when they still may have a few days to live just cuts them short of those last days to be with their family and get to enjoy life’s moments a last time. Medicine was meant and invented to help people and aid them in recovering, not to kill them. Secondly, a quote by Margaret Wente, a writer for Globe and Mail, reads, “One woman was euthanized a year after her husband died because she didn't want to live without him.” This shows how assisted suicide should not be legalized because then people will receive this treatment for nonmedical reasons. This woman wanted to die because her husband died, so the doctor prescribed a medicine and she was gone. This is not the type of thing doctors are supposed to do, and it is not legal. It should not be okay for people to go to doctors to receive their deaths. Thirdly, as Charles C. Camosy, a writer for the Los Angeles Times, wrote, “It was somehow fitting that, at about the same time Brown was signing the right-to-die bill, a study published in the Southern Medical Journal
While it is often argued that assisted suicide or euthanasia is a right of people to have a choice. One cannot deny that choosing whether you want to die or not is your decision and not the cold blooded type of murder you imagine. Nevertheless, we must make it imperative that assisted suicide is not legal because of the way it is violating the basic tenets of medicine with these purposely lethal drugs. Firstly, as Ira Byock, a writer for Los Angeles Times, informed the public, “People who are disabled or facing life's end can be cared for in ways that allow them to feel respected, worthy and valued.” This declares how prescribing lethal drugs to intentionally end one’s life is not the only option. There are many other basic ways to try and not only help the patient keep fighting, but just to help them enjoy their last days of life. Killing someone when they still may have a few days to live just cuts them short of those last days to be with their family and get to enjoy life’s moments a last time. Medicine was meant and invented to help people and aid them in recovering, not to kill them. Secondly, a quote by Margaret Wente, a writer for Globe and Mail, reads, “One woman was euthanized a year after her husband died because she didn't want to live without him.” This shows how assisted suicide should not be legalized because then people will receive this treatment for nonmedical reasons. This woman wanted to die because her husband died, so the doctor prescribed a medicine and she was gone. This is not the type of thing doctors are supposed to do, and it is not legal. It should not be okay for people to go to doctors to receive their deaths. Thirdly, as Charles C. Camosy, a writer for the Los Angeles Times, wrote, “It was somehow fitting that, at about the same time Brown was signing the right-to-die bill, a study published in the Southern Medical Journal