Jack Kevorkian Arguments Against Euthanasia

The man on the television screen is Jack Kevorkian. Kevorkian was an advocate for physician-assisted suicide. He was known as “Dr. Death,” because he was a physician who assisted “one-hundred and thirty patients to their end.” Some viewed Kevorkian as a “hero” because he helped enforce the movement of physician-assisted suicide to become more relevant. His famous saying was “dying is not a crime,” and it is true because that’s all assisted suicide is; the patient dies, they are not being killed by anyone but themselves because they chose to, there is nothing more to it. The women, who is sitting down watching television, is saying “Physician-assisted suicide is just not natural,” but in my perspective the word “natural” contradicts her actions. …show more content…
Doctors don’t do any type of killing; the patient does the dying. All the physician does is prescribe the lethal drug, but only after the physician receives three requests, and goes through the whole process. It would be a different story if it were Euthanasia, because Euthanasia allows physicians to participate in that aspect. In “Baxter and the return of physician-assisted suicide,” John Robinson states that courts finalized that “physicians could not be convicted of violating the homicide statute because the physician would always be able to assert the consent of the patient in question as a complete defense.” Physician’s cannot be convicted because they contain proof that the patient asked for “assistance in death.” This practice is safe and does not corrupt doctors. I know physician-assisted death sounds like we encourage “suicide,” and many people will never change that perspective, I do not blame them. But, we are certainly not encouraging suicide, I am for it because once I saw my beloved grandfather suffer, it scarred me. I never wanted to see a loved one suffer again; I would rather know that they are at peace. Robinson claims, “We should seek instead to create in our communities values, practices, and institutions that will assure each of us the sort of care--familial, societal, and medical--that will make the resort to assistance in suicide unnecessary:” Once again, the purpose of physician-assisted suicide is to end suffering, it can be necessary to many people in the United States. Society needs to quit judging and respect other people 's choices, we all think differently. Next, we cannot let religion interfere with the “Death With Dignity Act” becoming legal because not everyone believes in God; It would be awkward to debate with someone who does not believe in what you are saying. Also, people say