Physician Assisted Suicide Research Paper

Physician-Assisted Suicide Although I agree with the legalization of physician-assisted suicide, there are four key points that people against the legalization promote. These four reasons are that some people are part of a religion that forbids anything like suicide, that it is possible for terminally ill people to get better, that legalization is a slippery slope to to legal murder, and finally that families and doctors may be prompted to give up on recovery of the patient faster. In strict religions like Catholicism or Judaism, committing suicide is deemed an unforgivable sin. All religions offer a meaning or some kind of explanation for death and for some, a thing like euthanasia is the wrong way to do it. They believe God has laid out in the Ten Commandments His beliefs about the sin of murder or killing and this includes harm to oneself. The human life is sacred that it why murder is in the Ten Commandments in the first place, God has created each person and it would not be in his plan to have you be in so much pain and suffering to commit suicide. …show more content…
This is a phrase used very commonly and to most it is a saying to live by. There have been countless coma patients or terminally ill patients that, by some higher miracle, have lived on when doctors have said otherwise. Just this sheer chance that they may live is why people choose against physician assisted suicide. This hope for a miracle is what keeps patients with positive attitudes and for some this attitude helps them to get better. A patient that has hope and has not given up on life is more likely to try any option and proceed to recover. Being a Christian, I believe that miracles do happen everyday and sometimes that’s enough to make them