Physician-Assisted suicide is a popular debate topic amongst individuals who are medical practitioners, politicians or have had a related incident concerning a family member or friend. In the United States, patients are not assisted with suicide involving the physician, but with a pill intake. The practice of euthanasia is illegal throughout most of the United States except for Washington, Oregon, California, Vermont and Bernalillo County, New Mexico and Montana. Other countries around the world, specifically Switzerland, permit the physician to inject their patient to their death. The decision regarding patient suicide should be granted to the patient and one other family member or friend. The family member or friend is considered to be the
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Although, some patients with depression do have a tendency to continuously acquire suicidal thoughts and immediately demand to be put to death. When that is the case, the physician should look into the issue and enact therapy to placate the problem. If the condition continues to worsen, the patient’s proposal should be implemented along with consent from their plus one. The practice of euthanasia being illegal in the U.S. is a serious issue, and without the law being put into action to give patients an option, patients will have no choice but to suffer with persistent pain.
Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide by Gerald Dworkin is divided into two sections: Part one, written by authors Gerald Dworkin and R.G. Frey and Part two, which was written by Sissela Bok. The first part of the book entirely focuses on the arguments of Leon …show more content…
Steinberg and Stuart J. Youngner incorporate a variety of short stories with different authors. The book starts out with three contradicting, but similar issues: an anecdote of an elderly man who has stage four cancer and didn’t want to die, an elderly woman who is constantly readmitted into a hospital and would rather die and a middle-aged woman who refuses to take medical treatment and insists on going home. Further into the book, the authors incorporated Buchanan and Brock’s three types of mental attributes necessary for decision making. “1) understanding and communication, 2) reasoning and deliberation, and 3) a stable set of values” (Steinberg and Youngner 26). They go more into depth by defining the attributes and making it understandable for the readers. A majority of the book includes studies as well as opinions from outside sources like authors and scientists. Each contributor supplies anecdotes from experiences and advice is also given. Statistics are also included in the book. One study in the book had something to do with family distrust in the treatment team. “Minority status can heighten a family’s distrust of the treatment team” (Steinberg and Youngner 93). A few religions have different perspectives on suicide, Pious Muslims for example, believe that death is a part of God’s plan and that to struggle against it is wrong while Jews believe that fighting against death is the right way to
Although, some patients with depression do have a tendency to continuously acquire suicidal thoughts and immediately demand to be put to death. When that is the case, the physician should look into the issue and enact therapy to placate the problem. If the condition continues to worsen, the patient’s proposal should be implemented along with consent from their plus one. The practice of euthanasia being illegal in the U.S. is a serious issue, and without the law being put into action to give patients an option, patients will have no choice but to suffer with persistent pain.
Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide by Gerald Dworkin is divided into two sections: Part one, written by authors Gerald Dworkin and R.G. Frey and Part two, which was written by Sissela Bok. The first part of the book entirely focuses on the arguments of Leon …show more content…
Steinberg and Stuart J. Youngner incorporate a variety of short stories with different authors. The book starts out with three contradicting, but similar issues: an anecdote of an elderly man who has stage four cancer and didn’t want to die, an elderly woman who is constantly readmitted into a hospital and would rather die and a middle-aged woman who refuses to take medical treatment and insists on going home. Further into the book, the authors incorporated Buchanan and Brock’s three types of mental attributes necessary for decision making. “1) understanding and communication, 2) reasoning and deliberation, and 3) a stable set of values” (Steinberg and Youngner 26). They go more into depth by defining the attributes and making it understandable for the readers. A majority of the book includes studies as well as opinions from outside sources like authors and scientists. Each contributor supplies anecdotes from experiences and advice is also given. Statistics are also included in the book. One study in the book had something to do with family distrust in the treatment team. “Minority status can heighten a family’s distrust of the treatment team” (Steinberg and Youngner 93). A few religions have different perspectives on suicide, Pious Muslims for example, believe that death is a part of God’s plan and that to struggle against it is wrong while Jews believe that fighting against death is the right way to