Doctor Assisted Suicide Persuasive Speech

Doctor assisted suicide provides guidance to patients who wish to end their life, from their darkest and desperate moments suffering a terminal illness or excruciating pain. Allowing doctors to have the power to perform this act and help assist in one’s suicide should be legalized. What if our society and our legislation system could help, what if they could offer a third party, when patients no longer have the strength to fight anymore. Medical technology has advanced throughout the years, and has the power to prolong the lives of humans. The technology has the ability to support and save a patient’s failing lungs, however for the terminally ill; there are times when pain medication does not suffice , the reality just means prolonging …show more content…
For the immediate family having to watch their love one become weaker and struggling with activity of daily life can be very devastating, knowing that there is no positive outcome. Not to mention medicine has a high price, and a patient will have knowledge to this, and every day they are in the hospital, but of course families do not consider the cost while their love one is still alive. However when the love one passes they will have a huge medical bill and some often struggle to pay it all off. If terminal patients have the option of assisted suicide they no longer have to suffer more agony and pain longer then they need to, they reduce the pain that their family has to go through to witness them suffering and reduce the damage of final effects from hospital …show more content…
Patients have a right to refuse medical treatment, in this case a patient can refuse kidney dialysis, or mechanical ventilation even if it could lead to death. However the doctors involved are not considered a criminal unlike assisted suicide. Many people fill out a form for a do not resuscitate whether it is in a hospital, homecare, or even their house. Doctors are not at fault for not helping the patient, and watching their death. Yet asking for this is not considered assisted suicide and is legal. Lastly, if something goes wrong on the operating table and results in a death, the doctors are not are not considered a criminal. These situations all have the possibility of resulting in a death. However, a refusal of medical treatment is legal, do not resuscitate is legal, and a death on the operating table is not considered