The controversy of assisted suicide has taken a huge effect on our society; that has not always been legal in the United States until now with six states allowing it. Assisted suicide should be legalized in the United States because it offers terminally ill patients the right to end their life of treatments and allows them death with dignity, financial motivation under healthcare to kill themselves is a cheaper alternative to medical treatment, and alleviate the pain with families pain and suffering.
To begin with, for terminally ill patients who suffer from terminal illnesses have succeeded in extending people’s lives by medical science since the 1960s, The Hippocratic Oath refers to “do not harm” was introduced in 1973. Research studies …show more content…
Many people say it is not morally right blah blah 2006 It is true that others may argue that a patient should not have the right to end their life. For some reason, it is considered an act against religion. The opposing forces feel that only God should have the right to take away lives. According to Appointment with Doctor Death, Betzold claims, that those feel violated that it’s the sanctity of life that will hinder their religious beliefs. According to these critcs “Life is a gift bestowed by God and therefore cannot be taken by anyone but God” (). People will burn in hell if they committed suicide. Christians find it offensive disregarding physician-assisted suicide in explanation, Allen Verhey, a professor of religion at Hope College in Holland, Michigan, writes "It is clear that God intends life and that God 's cause is life, not death." () Similarly, the Michigan Catholic Conference states, "Assisted suicide is a perversion of genuine mercy.... Suicide in any form prevents us from fulfilling the plan God intended for us when we were given life." In an unusual divergence from traditional Christian thought on this issue, retired Episcopal bishop John Shelby Spong asks this question, "When medical science shifts from expanding the length and quality of life and begins simply to postpone the reality of death, why are we not capable of saying that the …show more content…
Assisted suicide is just a needle, it’s harmless while physician used treatment for healing process. Also, patients don’t need to keep suffering, and families don’t need to suffer watching them suffer. Terminal sedation also called (palliative sedation," "continuous deep sedation”) is used to alleviate pain. “Autonomy is therefore undercut whether the patient 's capacity for reflection is impaired by severe pain or not.” it may feel natural (even if it is not), it may feel safer (even if it offers less protection from abuse), it may feel like something the patient can openly choose (even if the choice is constructed in a way that obscures its real nature), and it may feel to the physician as if it is more in keeping with medical codes that prohibit killing (even if it still brings about death). We live in a society that tolerates many obfuscations and hypocrisies, and this may be another one we ought to
To begin with, for terminally ill patients who suffer from terminal illnesses have succeeded in extending people’s lives by medical science since the 1960s, The Hippocratic Oath refers to “do not harm” was introduced in 1973. Research studies …show more content…
Many people say it is not morally right blah blah 2006 It is true that others may argue that a patient should not have the right to end their life. For some reason, it is considered an act against religion. The opposing forces feel that only God should have the right to take away lives. According to Appointment with Doctor Death, Betzold claims, that those feel violated that it’s the sanctity of life that will hinder their religious beliefs. According to these critcs “Life is a gift bestowed by God and therefore cannot be taken by anyone but God” (). People will burn in hell if they committed suicide. Christians find it offensive disregarding physician-assisted suicide in explanation, Allen Verhey, a professor of religion at Hope College in Holland, Michigan, writes "It is clear that God intends life and that God 's cause is life, not death." () Similarly, the Michigan Catholic Conference states, "Assisted suicide is a perversion of genuine mercy.... Suicide in any form prevents us from fulfilling the plan God intended for us when we were given life." In an unusual divergence from traditional Christian thought on this issue, retired Episcopal bishop John Shelby Spong asks this question, "When medical science shifts from expanding the length and quality of life and begins simply to postpone the reality of death, why are we not capable of saying that the …show more content…
Assisted suicide is just a needle, it’s harmless while physician used treatment for healing process. Also, patients don’t need to keep suffering, and families don’t need to suffer watching them suffer. Terminal sedation also called (palliative sedation," "continuous deep sedation”) is used to alleviate pain. “Autonomy is therefore undercut whether the patient 's capacity for reflection is impaired by severe pain or not.” it may feel natural (even if it is not), it may feel safer (even if it offers less protection from abuse), it may feel like something the patient can openly choose (even if the choice is constructed in a way that obscures its real nature), and it may feel to the physician as if it is more in keeping with medical codes that prohibit killing (even if it still brings about death). We live in a society that tolerates many obfuscations and hypocrisies, and this may be another one we ought to