Should Physicians be allowed to assist in patient suicide?
Physician or doctor-assisted suicide has been one of the most debated issues in the last few years. Physician assisted suicide when a doctor supports a fatally sick or immobilized person to take their own life, either by consuming drug or advises on what way to practice to do suicide with. There are many ethical and moral opinions regarding physician-assisted suicide. Some of the opinions and arguments are based on religious approach and some are based on medical ethics. It can be said that the fatally sick and immobilized person must not be supported to commit suicide and take their own life by any means. However, it is against the rules of medical ethics for a physician to support the suicide of a patient. According to Marcia Angell, doctor’s main responsibility is to value the patient admiration and to dismiss grief and misery, and even if occasionally means supporting in a patient’s death. She says that “Assisted suicide is a form of killing, which is always wrong. In contrast, withdrawing life-sustaining treatment simply allows the disease to take its course”. She has the opinion that assisted suicide is illogical as euthanasia can be practiced without the patient 's involvement, she oppose its support. Moreover, she says that suicide is not required if all pain of the patient exposed and if the doctor or physician is fully skilled and concerned. She says that support suicide would be a danger to economy and society as well. She says “Depressed patients would seek physician-assisted suicide rather than help for their depression. Even in the terminally ill, a request for assisted suicide might signify treatable depression, not irreversible suffering”. (Marcia Angell, 1997) On the other hand, Kathleen M. Foley says that if doctors supported the patient’s suicide than suicide becomes legal. Moreover she says that ‘pain’ is the main factor of patient committing suicide. Due to the unbearable amount of pain patient request their physician to assist suicide and euthanasia. She says that the doctor’s moral obligation is to care the patient, and not death. Doctors’ do effort with …show more content…
Human being must survive until their last breath and we all have no control over his or her life, and even we have no control over own life. The notion of assist patient to commit suicide is totally absurd and a great type of sin and cruel as well. If someone says that the greatest and unbearable amount of pain is the main factor for patient to commit suicide than it is totally wrong. As Kathleen raises this point, I am against her illogical point in this regard. According to mu understanding, people who made this reason that pain is the main factor that influence both the patient and doctor to assist suicide is not right and illegal by any means. To give someone drug like morphine that could stop breathing of the patient is against any law and moral standards. We all are humans and we all have sense that assisting patient to commit suicide just because he or she is suffering with a bad pain is moral, ethically, logically, and economically wrong act to do. On the side of the doctors, they must play a vital role in this regard to support the patients and give them better and possible treatment to face and bear their pain and support them to struggle with courage to live long instead of assisting them to commit
Physician or doctor-assisted suicide has been one of the most debated issues in the last few years. Physician assisted suicide when a doctor supports a fatally sick or immobilized person to take their own life, either by consuming drug or advises on what way to practice to do suicide with. There are many ethical and moral opinions regarding physician-assisted suicide. Some of the opinions and arguments are based on religious approach and some are based on medical ethics. It can be said that the fatally sick and immobilized person must not be supported to commit suicide and take their own life by any means. However, it is against the rules of medical ethics for a physician to support the suicide of a patient. According to Marcia Angell, doctor’s main responsibility is to value the patient admiration and to dismiss grief and misery, and even if occasionally means supporting in a patient’s death. She says that “Assisted suicide is a form of killing, which is always wrong. In contrast, withdrawing life-sustaining treatment simply allows the disease to take its course”. She has the opinion that assisted suicide is illogical as euthanasia can be practiced without the patient 's involvement, she oppose its support. Moreover, she says that suicide is not required if all pain of the patient exposed and if the doctor or physician is fully skilled and concerned. She says that support suicide would be a danger to economy and society as well. She says “Depressed patients would seek physician-assisted suicide rather than help for their depression. Even in the terminally ill, a request for assisted suicide might signify treatable depression, not irreversible suffering”. (Marcia Angell, 1997) On the other hand, Kathleen M. Foley says that if doctors supported the patient’s suicide than suicide becomes legal. Moreover she says that ‘pain’ is the main factor of patient committing suicide. Due to the unbearable amount of pain patient request their physician to assist suicide and euthanasia. She says that the doctor’s moral obligation is to care the patient, and not death. Doctors’ do effort with …show more content…
Human being must survive until their last breath and we all have no control over his or her life, and even we have no control over own life. The notion of assist patient to commit suicide is totally absurd and a great type of sin and cruel as well. If someone says that the greatest and unbearable amount of pain is the main factor for patient to commit suicide than it is totally wrong. As Kathleen raises this point, I am against her illogical point in this regard. According to mu understanding, people who made this reason that pain is the main factor that influence both the patient and doctor to assist suicide is not right and illegal by any means. To give someone drug like morphine that could stop breathing of the patient is against any law and moral standards. We all are humans and we all have sense that assisting patient to commit suicide just because he or she is suffering with a bad pain is moral, ethically, logically, and economically wrong act to do. On the side of the doctors, they must play a vital role in this regard to support the patients and give them better and possible treatment to face and bear their pain and support them to struggle with courage to live long instead of assisting them to commit