Physician Assisted Suicide His or her intentionally taking of their lives is considered suicide. Even though their families often struggle with their reasoning behind it, they still choose to end their lives at the hands of themselves. Often the reason why, remains a mystery. It is unrealistic that a note or preplanning of such an event would exist, however in recent years’ physician assisted suicide has become a reality of which several have chosen and have actually even been called a hero. Physician assisted suicide should not be allowed because it sends the wrong message about courage and strength to society as a whole and it empowers them to choose a premature death as they are scared of the unknown. It, physician assisted suicide, has
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He is just one reason why physician assisted suicide should not be allowed. David was diagnosed with the same terminal brain cancer as Brittany Maynard. However, the path that David choose to take was very different from Brittany. Just like Brittany, David was given the death sentence. However, it was not just once but on “three separate times, starting in 2003, David was given anywhere from 6 to 12 months to live” (Kuo 42). Nevertheless, David did not plan the end of his life instead David fought for his life. He turned to Scripture passages and put his faith in God, believing that there was still a plan regardless of all the suffering. Despite his diagnosis David lived his life to the fullest. He fathered two children, wrote a book and touch the lives of many. David lived another 10 years after his first diagnosis of 6 to 12 months to live. Was it just a matter of David’s will to live or maybe his outlook on life? Kuo writes of another, Stuart Scott, who “faced death with enough winsomeness to persuade anyone to keep fighting for life: You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and the manner in which you live. So live. Live. Fight like hell, and when you get too tired to fight, [lie} down and rest and let someone else fight for
He is just one reason why physician assisted suicide should not be allowed. David was diagnosed with the same terminal brain cancer as Brittany Maynard. However, the path that David choose to take was very different from Brittany. Just like Brittany, David was given the death sentence. However, it was not just once but on “three separate times, starting in 2003, David was given anywhere from 6 to 12 months to live” (Kuo 42). Nevertheless, David did not plan the end of his life instead David fought for his life. He turned to Scripture passages and put his faith in God, believing that there was still a plan regardless of all the suffering. Despite his diagnosis David lived his life to the fullest. He fathered two children, wrote a book and touch the lives of many. David lived another 10 years after his first diagnosis of 6 to 12 months to live. Was it just a matter of David’s will to live or maybe his outlook on life? Kuo writes of another, Stuart Scott, who “faced death with enough winsomeness to persuade anyone to keep fighting for life: You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and the manner in which you live. So live. Live. Fight like hell, and when you get too tired to fight, [lie} down and rest and let someone else fight for