Death With Dignity Research Paper

Living a lonely, prolonged, painful death is not what many people want in their final years. Death with dignity can skip this process and allow the person to painlessly end their life before it gets to be not worth it to live. Most people do not want to live their last days ventilated or taking medication that alters their physical, mental, emotional states as well as their verbal and cognitive abilities. Having the choice in this allows them to decide where they want to die and have their family and friends near them at the time. With 71% of people wanting to die at home, they can make this happen. Their family and friends can be there for physical comfort, support, and acceptance. Unlike the Nazi method, an inhumane starvation method, the death with dignity act offers less suffering and a more human act of dealing with dying. …show more content…
The death with dignity act encourages people to be killed off by taking the easy way out. There is no confidence or hope in the person. It is an act of giving up on life. The families of the dying will suffer knowing that there was nothing else done to help the person survive. Families want to see the person get better. They want more treatment and to keep the hope that the dying person will get through this. Also, when people are told they can only live for six months, this is just an estimate. They may live way past that. Over half of the people that were told they would live six months lived longer. Physicians are not positive that they only live this long. Things could get better. Pain and suffering could lessen. If the dying person could decide if they wanted to live longer or not, their decision may change the next day. Their day-to-day feelings can be different, and they may go back and forth on what they want. In the end, it may come down to what is most cost efficiency for everyone instead of what is really