Physician Assisted Suicide Movie Analysis

This film base on the work of Al Pacino, a physician assisted-suicide. Al Pacino main goal was to aid miserable patients that suffering from irreversible illness or pain to commit suicide. He offered patients the option to die painless instead of misery or waiting to die. Al Pacino believes that a conscious patient have the right to choose if he or she wants to commit suicide because of incapacitating pain. Utilitarianism ethical theory specified the doctrine that actions are right if they are useful or for benefit of a majority. Al Pacino decisions to gives patient the right to choose how to end the life emphasize the Utilitarianism theory. For example, one of the patient wishes for birthday was to go see Doctor Al Pacino. He decided to put an end to his painful life; it was beneficial to himself but also to his wife. Even though when he’s gone it was sad for his wife however, things would become easier for her. Another ethical theory Al Pacino decisions may have related with is Deontological theory. It is the normative ethical position that judges the morality of an action based on the action’s adherence to a rule. From my point of view I believe Al Pacino felt it was his duty to help patients that was suffering from pain to commit suicide. …show more content…
In numerous cases of where euthanasia might be deem the patient is conclusively active and capable making an independent decision however, I always asked is it adequate to end the patient life at his call? While I believe every individual have the right to kill themselves but I don’t think another person should help him or her. For example I think if a physician injects a patient with a dose of morphine to dismiss the misery of the patient who whishes to dies the doctor has actively killed the patient. No matter what is the pain someone feeling I do not believe dying is the way to feel