Jack Kevorkian Assisted Suicide

This is a never ending hell. Skin burning, stomach aching, head hurting with no escape. I attempt to stand up but can barely move an inch. I turn my head as I lay on the bed but it feels like acidics. These sharp knives stabbing at my every move. Would you help this pain die? Certain drugs used to be, and still are, ways in which people are helped in order to commit suicide. This is why President Richard Nixon passed the Controlled Substance Act in 1970. It was used to regulate the distribution of certain narcotics, stimulants, depressants, and other chemicals. The first significant time was in the year 1906 as part of the eugenics movement. Eugenics was the social movement which would improve genetic features in humans through selective breeding and sterilization. Jack, also known as “Dr. Death”, had assisted patients in death since 1990. Jack Kevorkian’s assisted suicide case was highly publicized in the 1990’s as it brought a new outlook on death. That was not the only time assisted suicide was presented in the United States. He had assisted in suicide to over 40 people since 1990 and was then sent to a maximum security prison for second degree murder in 1999, but, was let out since he was able to convince the court he would no longer assist in suicide. The state of Oregon passed a law in 1994 which found assisted suicide legal under the state’s laws. This was the first time physician assisted suicide was legal under the state government. A person could only be assisted in suicide if they were 18 years or older, a resident, could make medical decisions for themselves, and were diagnosed with a terminally ill disease that …show more content…
The constitution states that everyone has the right to life and that does not have anything to do with assisted suicide meaning that an individual should not take their life away. It is only one of the individual rights’. In reality, physician-assisted suicide is not