California adopts the “Right-to-die” law on Monday October 5, 2015 allowing the health
care system to assist suicide for terminally ill patients by providing a prescription of lethal drug
that will make possible for them to die quickly. This drug will be provide to all those who refuse
to be treating and prefer to die, instead of suffering cause of the disease. This law had been
approving only in four countries including Canada, New Zealand, Netherlands, and United
Stated. In United stated, only four states had affective this law. Implicating, Oregon,
Washington, Vermont, new Mexico and now California is becoming to be the fifth state. Jerry
Brown, who has served as the 39th Governor of California since 2011, and is part of the …show more content…
Many people believe that the patient will not die
because they can’t survive, but because they will be murder by the substances from the drugs.
The autonomy of the patient should be only respect in cases where the patients don’t
want to go through treatments because they are going to die soon anyways, but they should not
be giving any substances to kill them. For example, In the book “Biomedical Ethics” by
Degrazia, Mappes, and Brand-Ballard the term autonomy is widely discussed, it explain that the
patient has the right to decide not to take treatment to survive their disease but it does not
mentioned that the patient can receive from the doctors drugs with the only purpose of die in the
moment. In the book is a case that explains a situation where a minor named Jimmy T, who was
only eleven years old and was diagnosed with Lymphoma, and the oncologist that was studying
his case indicated that the treatment more effective on his case was chemotherapy. However, the
oncologist added that the chemotherapy offer a successful cure in only 20% in cases similar to
Jimmy’s case. Nonetheless, Jimmy T was also suffering of an incurable neurological
care system to assist suicide for terminally ill patients by providing a prescription of lethal drug
that will make possible for them to die quickly. This drug will be provide to all those who refuse
to be treating and prefer to die, instead of suffering cause of the disease. This law had been
approving only in four countries including Canada, New Zealand, Netherlands, and United
Stated. In United stated, only four states had affective this law. Implicating, Oregon,
Washington, Vermont, new Mexico and now California is becoming to be the fifth state. Jerry
Brown, who has served as the 39th Governor of California since 2011, and is part of the …show more content…
Many people believe that the patient will not die
because they can’t survive, but because they will be murder by the substances from the drugs.
The autonomy of the patient should be only respect in cases where the patients don’t
want to go through treatments because they are going to die soon anyways, but they should not
be giving any substances to kill them. For example, In the book “Biomedical Ethics” by
Degrazia, Mappes, and Brand-Ballard the term autonomy is widely discussed, it explain that the
patient has the right to decide not to take treatment to survive their disease but it does not
mentioned that the patient can receive from the doctors drugs with the only purpose of die in the
moment. In the book is a case that explains a situation where a minor named Jimmy T, who was
only eleven years old and was diagnosed with Lymphoma, and the oncologist that was studying
his case indicated that the treatment more effective on his case was chemotherapy. However, the
oncologist added that the chemotherapy offer a successful cure in only 20% in cases similar to
Jimmy’s case. Nonetheless, Jimmy T was also suffering of an incurable neurological