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Dakotah Charleston
Diane Mercer
Honors Freshman Lit
21 February 2017
Assisted Suicide Assisted Suicide has been a controversial topic since the 90's. It is often a sensitive topic since religious views our often brought up when discussing the rights and wrongs about it. Christians are believers of pro life and that all life is sacred. Where as other believe that it is your life, and your choice. Physician assisted suicide should not be legal because it is immoral, takes away our basic rights, and violates the Hippocratic oath. Even though opponents believe that it can relieve pain, let patients die with dignity, and cost less than prolonging death. Dr. Kevorkian was the first doctor practice physician assisted suicide in …show more content…
Doctors have been living by this oath for years and that wont
Charleston 2 be changing anytime soon. Doctors have always been viewed as healers. People, who help figure out what's wrong with us and help. Now doctors are also going to be the people who end lives.its kinda ironic when you think about it People can get better and improve. It is not uncommon for people with terminally ill diseases to get better. Why let people end their life when there is the possibility that they can get better. No one can predict the future, so why jump the gun and let people end their lives. Pro choice and all but is self sacrifice really the way to go. Life is precious. If you're religious you may believe that life was given by God so only God can take it away. God gave us one life to live. Why try and end it early? When it is a persons time to go, they will go. Doctors can give you misdiagnosis. A misdiagnosis is when a doctor tells you, you have something and you do not have it. (Maisie)What if this happened to a person and they wanted physician assisted suicide? Dp we really want little mistakes taking peoples …show more content…
The illnesses these patients have can put their bodies in a lot of pain. Life can become unbearable. Sometimes the medicine that they are taking does not help their disease it just prolongs them dying. Some patients just do not want to lay around in a bed for months waiting for death to take over. Dying with dignity can be important to a person. Lying in a hospital bed completely torn, exhausted and defeated is not the way some people wish to die. With Physician assisted suicide it is on their terms and they can go peacefully knowing it was their choice
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Seeing your loved one defeated, completely torn, worn down, and ready to give up. You cannot do anything to help them. You love them so much you would do anything to put them out of their misery no matter what the cost was. We go to extreme measures to make the people we care about happy even if death is the only option. Physician assisted suicide is not the answer. It should stay banned to protect our morals, keep our basic rights, control the power of doctors and follow the hippocratic oath. People oposed may argue that it relieves pain, lets the patients die with dignity, and cost less than prolonging
Dakotah Charleston
Diane Mercer
Honors Freshman Lit
21 February 2017
Assisted Suicide Assisted Suicide has been a controversial topic since the 90's. It is often a sensitive topic since religious views our often brought up when discussing the rights and wrongs about it. Christians are believers of pro life and that all life is sacred. Where as other believe that it is your life, and your choice. Physician assisted suicide should not be legal because it is immoral, takes away our basic rights, and violates the Hippocratic oath. Even though opponents believe that it can relieve pain, let patients die with dignity, and cost less than prolonging death. Dr. Kevorkian was the first doctor practice physician assisted suicide in …show more content…
Doctors have been living by this oath for years and that wont
Charleston 2 be changing anytime soon. Doctors have always been viewed as healers. People, who help figure out what's wrong with us and help. Now doctors are also going to be the people who end lives.its kinda ironic when you think about it People can get better and improve. It is not uncommon for people with terminally ill diseases to get better. Why let people end their life when there is the possibility that they can get better. No one can predict the future, so why jump the gun and let people end their lives. Pro choice and all but is self sacrifice really the way to go. Life is precious. If you're religious you may believe that life was given by God so only God can take it away. God gave us one life to live. Why try and end it early? When it is a persons time to go, they will go. Doctors can give you misdiagnosis. A misdiagnosis is when a doctor tells you, you have something and you do not have it. (Maisie)What if this happened to a person and they wanted physician assisted suicide? Dp we really want little mistakes taking peoples …show more content…
The illnesses these patients have can put their bodies in a lot of pain. Life can become unbearable. Sometimes the medicine that they are taking does not help their disease it just prolongs them dying. Some patients just do not want to lay around in a bed for months waiting for death to take over. Dying with dignity can be important to a person. Lying in a hospital bed completely torn, exhausted and defeated is not the way some people wish to die. With Physician assisted suicide it is on their terms and they can go peacefully knowing it was their choice
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Seeing your loved one defeated, completely torn, worn down, and ready to give up. You cannot do anything to help them. You love them so much you would do anything to put them out of their misery no matter what the cost was. We go to extreme measures to make the people we care about happy even if death is the only option. Physician assisted suicide is not the answer. It should stay banned to protect our morals, keep our basic rights, control the power of doctors and follow the hippocratic oath. People oposed may argue that it relieves pain, lets the patients die with dignity, and cost less than prolonging