Currently, one looks to the award winning films when looking for entertainment. Recently, a controversial film topped the charts. According to Los Angeles Times, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri received 43 major nominations for the 2018 awards season, winning 20 awards.” While attempting to get audience members root for the underdog, which in this case was a racist cop, the movie has made several headlines. Many want to compare the movie to current events with police brutality or even the Blue Lives Matter and Black Lives Matter movements. However, few people are speaking on behalf of the real problem with the movie: the glorification of suicide. Although Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri was a various award winning film,
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Bill Willoughby was a man who knew that his life was coming to an end and he decided that he wanted to do it on his own terms. Assisted suicide is precisely this, only with the help from the doctor. This allows families to adjust to the idea of their loved ones passing and coming to peace with the fact that nothing else can be done. Several states have their own policy on whether or not assisted suicide is allowed in their state and have strict guidelines. Such policies are mentioned in “Physician-Assisted Suicide: Compassionate Liberation or Murder” by Vicki Lachman. It is stated that this procedure “requires the patient to give a fully informed, voluntary decision, applies only to the last six months of the patient's life … requires two oral requests by the patients, requires a written request by the patient, [and] allows cancellation at any time.” Depicting this in the movie would allow the audience to not think of the horrible deterioration that would have likely happened to Willoughby. Many people watch their loved ones pass aways due to incurable diseases and would not like to think of them taking their life without fully thinking it
Bill Willoughby was a man who knew that his life was coming to an end and he decided that he wanted to do it on his own terms. Assisted suicide is precisely this, only with the help from the doctor. This allows families to adjust to the idea of their loved ones passing and coming to peace with the fact that nothing else can be done. Several states have their own policy on whether or not assisted suicide is allowed in their state and have strict guidelines. Such policies are mentioned in “Physician-Assisted Suicide: Compassionate Liberation or Murder” by Vicki Lachman. It is stated that this procedure “requires the patient to give a fully informed, voluntary decision, applies only to the last six months of the patient's life … requires two oral requests by the patients, requires a written request by the patient, [and] allows cancellation at any time.” Depicting this in the movie would allow the audience to not think of the horrible deterioration that would have likely happened to Willoughby. Many people watch their loved ones pass aways due to incurable diseases and would not like to think of them taking their life without fully thinking it