Physician Assisted Suicide
Picture yourself lying motionless in a hospital bed. Various tubes, wires and bands tangled over your body. Feeling as though all the life and ambition you ever had is being replaced with nothing but the side affects from the drugs pumped and dripped through your system. The very thought of control ceases to exist. You no longer have control over what leaves or enters your body, you lose control of sleep patterns, thoughts and ambitions; worst of all you lose control over the value of your own life and happiness. Is it fair for someone else to decide whether you die with dignity? Is it fair that you lose the right to decide what happens to your own body? Is it fair that someone else can decide when your pain and suffering comes to an end?
I believe that Physician Assisted Suicide should be made legal in the United Kingdom. The duty of the National Health Service is to provide medial care and treat patients accordingly in the best possible way for their situation. What then is best for a patient who is terminally ill, with heart disease or cancer? Their suffering is completely subjective. A doctor …show more content…
In places such as Oregon, Montana, Washington and South Africa where assisted suicide is legal, it is only provided to mentally competent adults who are fully of aware of the decision that they are making, as well as having to go through an extremely lengthy process to be given assisted suicide the US government aim to make the process as guilt free as possible for families and doctors. No doctor is ever forced to provide assisted suicide to a patient. When a request for assisted suicide is sent away it is delivered to a team of doctors who morally support assisted suicide. Therefore the fear that doctors may be forced to distribute to patients unwillingly is untrue due to assessment of the patient and the fact that assisted suicide is distributed exclusively by doctors who agree with the
Picture yourself lying motionless in a hospital bed. Various tubes, wires and bands tangled over your body. Feeling as though all the life and ambition you ever had is being replaced with nothing but the side affects from the drugs pumped and dripped through your system. The very thought of control ceases to exist. You no longer have control over what leaves or enters your body, you lose control of sleep patterns, thoughts and ambitions; worst of all you lose control over the value of your own life and happiness. Is it fair for someone else to decide whether you die with dignity? Is it fair that you lose the right to decide what happens to your own body? Is it fair that someone else can decide when your pain and suffering comes to an end?
I believe that Physician Assisted Suicide should be made legal in the United Kingdom. The duty of the National Health Service is to provide medial care and treat patients accordingly in the best possible way for their situation. What then is best for a patient who is terminally ill, with heart disease or cancer? Their suffering is completely subjective. A doctor …show more content…
In places such as Oregon, Montana, Washington and South Africa where assisted suicide is legal, it is only provided to mentally competent adults who are fully of aware of the decision that they are making, as well as having to go through an extremely lengthy process to be given assisted suicide the US government aim to make the process as guilt free as possible for families and doctors. No doctor is ever forced to provide assisted suicide to a patient. When a request for assisted suicide is sent away it is delivered to a team of doctors who morally support assisted suicide. Therefore the fear that doctors may be forced to distribute to patients unwillingly is untrue due to assessment of the patient and the fact that assisted suicide is distributed exclusively by doctors who agree with the