In 2011, Lecretia Seales was diagnosed with a brain tumour. No matter what treatment she undertook the tumour only deteriorated. Mrs. Seales tried everything to cure her illness, from chemotherapy to brain surgery. It was all in vain. She was quoted as saying that “… it’s robbing me of a full life”. Mrs. Seales all but begged the New Zealand legal system to give her a bypass on the law against assisted suicide. It was not allowed. She died due to her illness leaving a family to grieve over a broken memory. To say that assisted suicide should be illegal is when you truly lose your humanity. We - as a country – should now be seriously considering the legalization of assisted suicide.
The undertaking of the assisted suicide is no different from a doctor prescribing a patient a medication. The aim of this 'prescription' is to allow a patient with a terminal illness to choose when and how they pass away. The effect of the drug is that when the patient takes the drug it puts them in a deep sleep and stops their heart. If this opportunity was given to Mrs. Seales she would have died a peaceful death. If the drug used doesn’t cause any pain and is taken by the patient without help, how can it be related to homicide? If anything, it’s a death that’s going to cause a lot less pain than the death they …show more content…
This counters the argument that assisted suicide is murder. This is because the physician is doing nothing except providing the drug. This argument has been used by many Physicians such as Jack Kevorkian to avoid prosecution after helping their patients reach a peaceful end. An example used to describe this is when a car manufacturer provides a car to someone who drives drunk. Although they provided the car they are not the one causing the person to drive drunk – that is still the driver’s decision. If it is the patient’s decision it shouldn’t be
The undertaking of the assisted suicide is no different from a doctor prescribing a patient a medication. The aim of this 'prescription' is to allow a patient with a terminal illness to choose when and how they pass away. The effect of the drug is that when the patient takes the drug it puts them in a deep sleep and stops their heart. If this opportunity was given to Mrs. Seales she would have died a peaceful death. If the drug used doesn’t cause any pain and is taken by the patient without help, how can it be related to homicide? If anything, it’s a death that’s going to cause a lot less pain than the death they …show more content…
This counters the argument that assisted suicide is murder. This is because the physician is doing nothing except providing the drug. This argument has been used by many Physicians such as Jack Kevorkian to avoid prosecution after helping their patients reach a peaceful end. An example used to describe this is when a car manufacturer provides a car to someone who drives drunk. Although they provided the car they are not the one causing the person to drive drunk – that is still the driver’s decision. If it is the patient’s decision it shouldn’t be