You are visiting your grandma from the mental hospital, you can tell the end is near. You take a glance into her eyes and you visualize the miserable pain and suffering she is withstanding. You can indicate that she has no incentive to even breathe the same air as you. Do you really think she wants to be alive? Assisted suicide is a very contentious topic; some may argue that it is a physician’s duty to ease a patient’s pain from someone that is suffering an illness or mental problems. Most of our nation does believe assisted death is an issue because our public feels as if the physician could potentially abuse their authority to trick and alter the decisions of the weak and vulnerable. Physician assisted suicide is a complication because
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Kevorkian commenced massive controversy on the moral issues involved with physician assisted suicide. In Kevorkian’s defence he claimed he had prevented many patients suffer from unnecessary pain and allowed his patients to die with dignity. During the 1990’s attention was brought to Kevorkian after he assisted the suicide of Janet Adkins a 45-year-old women who had alzheimer’s disease. Adkin heard over the media of Kevorkian’s invention of a suicide machine that allowed patients to die a lot more effectively. Kevorkian accepted to help Adkin by using the suicide machine which was done in a public park (Batten). This issue striked mass controversy causing Kevorkian to appear on television shows and newspapers around the world. This situation occurs often and it is very power abusive. Instead of the physician finding an alternative or a more effective way to assess the situation they come to the conclusion to kill their patient, this shows how much power a physician can have over your decisions. Kevorkian played a major role in physician assisted suicide because of the amount of lives he took. The numbers of fatal incidents revolved around Kevorkian was astonishing this behavior encouraged other people to follow his footsteps. This made others believe that physician assisted death is the correct and most ethical method to avoid suffering and pain instead of other options such as palliative
Kevorkian commenced massive controversy on the moral issues involved with physician assisted suicide. In Kevorkian’s defence he claimed he had prevented many patients suffer from unnecessary pain and allowed his patients to die with dignity. During the 1990’s attention was brought to Kevorkian after he assisted the suicide of Janet Adkins a 45-year-old women who had alzheimer’s disease. Adkin heard over the media of Kevorkian’s invention of a suicide machine that allowed patients to die a lot more effectively. Kevorkian accepted to help Adkin by using the suicide machine which was done in a public park (Batten). This issue striked mass controversy causing Kevorkian to appear on television shows and newspapers around the world. This situation occurs often and it is very power abusive. Instead of the physician finding an alternative or a more effective way to assess the situation they come to the conclusion to kill their patient, this shows how much power a physician can have over your decisions. Kevorkian played a major role in physician assisted suicide because of the amount of lives he took. The numbers of fatal incidents revolved around Kevorkian was astonishing this behavior encouraged other people to follow his footsteps. This made others believe that physician assisted death is the correct and most ethical method to avoid suffering and pain instead of other options such as palliative