When society examines the issue of the legalization of assisted suicide, the main factor considered is generally morality. However, this is not the main factor involved in assisted suicide. There are many different elements that influence this issue, and those elements are what make the legalization of voluntary euthanasia so incredibly complex and controversial. The legalization of assisted suicide is an issue with very many drawbacks, including the possibility of involuntary euthanasia, the possibility that the desire for this assistance based on false pretenses from mental distortion could be easily avoided, and professionals being forced into acts that most are not morally comfortable with. Involuntary euthanasia is a very clear risk of
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Those people are being discriminated against, stuck in nursing homes with no access to psychological counseling or sufficient finances to live independently. One disabled man, David Rivlin, was stuck in a nursing home for many years. He said, “‘if you’re in a situation where you have no freedom, then you have to make a change, and my change is death’” (Longmore, 2005). Many disabled people have these same feelings about life and death, but this could be avoided if the government only cared about what happened to the disabled. The government could supply funds for all of those people, but sometimes chooses not to. As a result of this, some disabled feel there is no way out besides death, and the judges that those people go to just give the right to assisted suicide. The idea is that disabled people are already basically dead and have nothing to live for besides suffering. This is not true, as most disabled people desire life and success, but just don’t have the access or the opportunities to achieve such. “The desire to hasten death may be used as an extreme coping strategy to maintain control against anticipated agony” (Pestinger, 2015). People who desire death are sometimes just afraid of not being in control or of dying a horrible death where there is nothing but pain
Those people are being discriminated against, stuck in nursing homes with no access to psychological counseling or sufficient finances to live independently. One disabled man, David Rivlin, was stuck in a nursing home for many years. He said, “‘if you’re in a situation where you have no freedom, then you have to make a change, and my change is death’” (Longmore, 2005). Many disabled people have these same feelings about life and death, but this could be avoided if the government only cared about what happened to the disabled. The government could supply funds for all of those people, but sometimes chooses not to. As a result of this, some disabled feel there is no way out besides death, and the judges that those people go to just give the right to assisted suicide. The idea is that disabled people are already basically dead and have nothing to live for besides suffering. This is not true, as most disabled people desire life and success, but just don’t have the access or the opportunities to achieve such. “The desire to hasten death may be used as an extreme coping strategy to maintain control against anticipated agony” (Pestinger, 2015). People who desire death are sometimes just afraid of not being in control or of dying a horrible death where there is nothing but pain