The Importance Of Physician Assisted Suicide

Terminally ill patients are already dying-- suffering their way through their end of time and prolonging their agony. They should have the right to end their lives peacefully, so they can stop their suffering and end their life the way they wanted to. People’s choices are up to them, not us. We can’t control what goes on in life so why should we judge a person who wants to end their live on good terms. Personal beliefs, religious beliefs, and opinions all stop Physician-Assisted Suicide (PAS)from being legal in many countries and states. Now is time to make a commendable change in people’s perspectives about PAS. It isn’t a fallacious thing, it’s a easeful way of ending a suffering person’s life. Using your opinions such as religious beliefs, and your perspective of the outcome towards legalizing Physician-assisted suicide in invalid and selfish. Not only do you allow a terminally ill patient suffer and go through agony day-by-day. Medical technology is great to mankind, but for the terminally ill, it just causes more prolonged suffering for the patient. Terminally ill should be able to choose their own fate, rather than suffer. “Those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their lives and those who help them should be free from prosecution. We don’t let animals suffer, so why humans?” (Stephen Hawking, PhD, cosmologist and theoretical physicist) This quote proves that if animals have the right to die without consent or with consent then why can’t humans have the right to die in their own fate? What is so bad about a suffering person wanting to end their life peacefully? If religious beliefs interfere with physician-assisted suicide cases, but the majority are for it, shouldn’t it be allowed? People suffer the rest of their lives because a small minority of people don’t approve of it. Some people like to refer Physician-assisted suicide as a undignified thing which ruins the sacred home of human life. It doesn’t make anything undignified, it makes it selfish for one’s opinion to prolong suffering and agony to a patient 's life. People die from horrible other causes-- wanting to end your life to end your suffering cause you’re terminally ill doesn’t make anything wrong or different. Humans are humans and we all have our own choices to make. “Many believe it is wrong to end human life, because life is sacred and the endurance of suffering confers its own dignity for others, the legislation of doctor-assisted suicide is the first step on a slippery slope for a premature death that causes a cheap alternative to palliative care.” (The Economist Newspaper) People shouldn’t be downgraded because of how they choose to live their own lives and how they end their own lives. Terminally ill patients know their going to die. …show more content…
People say medicine is supposed to heal but it also can kill. Not everything in this world is for humans. It could kill, heal, and injure anyone or anything. More than forty-seven thousand people die from overdose each year in America alone. Many people believe that assisted suicide will downgrade medical technology and corrupt medicine. Medicine could cause the patient 's treatment to prolong his/hers suffering but won’t help anyone if they are terminally ill. It’s a waste of resources which that corrupts medicine and causes a lot of loss of money for the families and patient’s. People say medicine is a tool used for healing, not for killing. They say it distorts doctor-patient relationships, and will perverse incentives for insurance powers. This is not that case-- Medicine is used for healing in only some cases. Many times there is deadly side effects to almost all medicine in general, and with that, it isn’t healing that much in that case. Medicine which can’t heal anyone anymore shouldn’t be wasted, but if we let them choose how they want to end their own lives then it’s up to them but it’ll save them money and save resources for patients who need them who can be treated and healed. Medicine is just another excuse for an argument against Physician-assisted suicide, and use doctors feelings with patients as another excuse such as insurance providers and financial healthcare that will do abnormal enticement. This