Physician-Assisted Suicicde
Physician-assisted-suicide is only legal in Montana, Oregon, and Washington while other states don’t have any written legislation or have completely illegalized the option. There are many mixed feelings when it comes to physician assisted suicide because of two contradicting words you would never expect to be next to each other.
A physicians’ sole role is to provide by all means the best care under the impression that it is towards the benefit and well-being of that patient. Not, assist in helping a patient take away their life through a lethal cocktail of therapeutic medicine or by providing them with the knowledge of how to effectively take their life away before considering some type of therapy. In this view …show more content…
I believe that a patient has a right to this option under patient autonomy. Also, under this law the patient maintains their right to their life. They pick and choose when their limits are versus their only option being to push until they can’t be pushed anymore, ending with a possible outcome of surviving their disease. However in most of these cases they are terminal disease. I can see why this issue would be controversial because it’s going completely against the ethics of a caregiver, however in many cases like these the care giver can’t give effective treatment. So instead of placing a patient through an extremely tiring amount of multiple therapeutic treatments or a possible onset of depression and stress from the therapy, this can be avoided. The physician can unintentionally take away the patients right by enforcing their ethical standards and not the patients. No one person can feel how another person is feeling and though ones position or outlook is for the greater good all emotions and feelings are subjective to that person. Also, not everybody wants to spend their time worrying about something they know is already out of their control. PAS gives the patient control over their life and they determine when they can no longer handle their situation. Choices need to still be an option for patients and the patients right to choice can often be over looked again when cure or stabilizing is the end goal by a physician, while the process is
Physician-assisted-suicide is only legal in Montana, Oregon, and Washington while other states don’t have any written legislation or have completely illegalized the option. There are many mixed feelings when it comes to physician assisted suicide because of two contradicting words you would never expect to be next to each other.
A physicians’ sole role is to provide by all means the best care under the impression that it is towards the benefit and well-being of that patient. Not, assist in helping a patient take away their life through a lethal cocktail of therapeutic medicine or by providing them with the knowledge of how to effectively take their life away before considering some type of therapy. In this view …show more content…
I believe that a patient has a right to this option under patient autonomy. Also, under this law the patient maintains their right to their life. They pick and choose when their limits are versus their only option being to push until they can’t be pushed anymore, ending with a possible outcome of surviving their disease. However in most of these cases they are terminal disease. I can see why this issue would be controversial because it’s going completely against the ethics of a caregiver, however in many cases like these the care giver can’t give effective treatment. So instead of placing a patient through an extremely tiring amount of multiple therapeutic treatments or a possible onset of depression and stress from the therapy, this can be avoided. The physician can unintentionally take away the patients right by enforcing their ethical standards and not the patients. No one person can feel how another person is feeling and though ones position or outlook is for the greater good all emotions and feelings are subjective to that person. Also, not everybody wants to spend their time worrying about something they know is already out of their control. PAS gives the patient control over their life and they determine when they can no longer handle their situation. Choices need to still be an option for patients and the patients right to choice can often be over looked again when cure or stabilizing is the end goal by a physician, while the process is