The Ethics Of Assisted Suicide By Elizabeth Aguilera

In the article Doctors debate the ethics of Assisted Suicide written by Elizabeth Aguilera and was published on May 18,2015. Dr Vincent Nguyen says that “We are here to protect the people who are sick, and we are here to promote health and in the event we cannot cure the person, healing can still take place”, he also says that “ the real reason that he is against assisted suicide is that doctors take the Hippocratic oath and that is why doctors go into medicine”. This quote helps because when a doctor signs the Hippocratic oath it helps shape the moral value and that a doctor wants to help cure someone, not help someone end their life, if they know the person might have a chance of getting better, then a doctor is telling a person …show more content…
The family might blame themselves and might feel like a failure to the person who wanted to end their life. Some families want to be involved in their loved ones life and be able to help make decisions because the family might not want their loved one to make a decision they will regret. If someone is really leaning towards suicide than by talking to their family, the family might be able to help change their family members mind and by having the family talking to the person instead of the doctor, the person is more likely going to listen to their family because they are the ones who want what is best for them and the family is going to do just that. What the person might not understand is that assisted suicide will affect their family because after the person has committed, the survivors of the might not have known what their loved one was planning, an example would be their was a person said “ I had now idea what he was planning or I would have tried to stop him” this quote came from the crisis magazine. As a family member he/she might want their loved one to live as long as possible and that it might go against their religious