When someone is suffering endless amounts of pain with no way to recover, they often choose to die with dignity through assisted suicide. Assisted suicide allows the terminally ill to end their pain. Assisted suicide should be legal in all fifty states because people have the right to die with dignity, to end their suffering, and to make their own decisions.
Death with Dignity is the option chosen by competent or family about actions to take when dying. A patient who is terminally ill has the right to make their own decisions. One choice people may consider is assisted suicide. There are four types of assisted suicide including euthanasia, terminal sedation, medication, and withdrawing or withholding from treatments. The method euthanasia, requires the physician to act directly by lethal injection to end the patient’s life. In terminal sedation the physician sedates the terminally ill to unconsciousness, and then allows the patient to either die of disease, starvation, or dehydration. The medication the patient can receive will cause effects to hasten death such as impairing respiration. The final method, withholding\withdrawing treatments, allows the patient to stop the treatments and lets the illness take …show more content…
The person may feel like they lost control of their own life and some patients do not have anybody to care for them. The financial strain can really take a toll on the person and their family. Even after the patient’s death the family will continue to struggle with hospital bills. The cost of maintaining a dying person is estimated to be anywhere from $2,000-$10,000 a month. A lot of terminally ill patients choose not to stay in a hospital at all times but to stay at the comfort of their own home and have in- home staff to treat them. The problem with in-home care is that Medicare, Medicaid, and state systems do not cover the cost so many people cannot afford
Death with Dignity is the option chosen by competent or family about actions to take when dying. A patient who is terminally ill has the right to make their own decisions. One choice people may consider is assisted suicide. There are four types of assisted suicide including euthanasia, terminal sedation, medication, and withdrawing or withholding from treatments. The method euthanasia, requires the physician to act directly by lethal injection to end the patient’s life. In terminal sedation the physician sedates the terminally ill to unconsciousness, and then allows the patient to either die of disease, starvation, or dehydration. The medication the patient can receive will cause effects to hasten death such as impairing respiration. The final method, withholding\withdrawing treatments, allows the patient to stop the treatments and lets the illness take …show more content…
The person may feel like they lost control of their own life and some patients do not have anybody to care for them. The financial strain can really take a toll on the person and their family. Even after the patient’s death the family will continue to struggle with hospital bills. The cost of maintaining a dying person is estimated to be anywhere from $2,000-$10,000 a month. A lot of terminally ill patients choose not to stay in a hospital at all times but to stay at the comfort of their own home and have in- home staff to treat them. The problem with in-home care is that Medicare, Medicaid, and state systems do not cover the cost so many people cannot afford