The Pros And Cons Of Assisted Suicide

Should assisted suicide be a choice ? In A Chapple's medical blog he describes how "one lady was determined to go on looking after her husband, and in the eleven years since he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, he got to the stage where he was blind, dumb, and she thought deaf, and she was still pushing food in one end and collecting it the other. He wasn't alive he was existing." Many people believe assisted suicide should be legalized to put an end to terminally ill patients. In the United States, California, Oregon, Washington, Montana, and New Hampshire have legalized assisted suicide. Although the decision of assisted suicide can be influenced by irrational thoughts, it would help to alleviate financial burdens for the family, to uphold the patients right to make decisions, and to encourage one die with dignity. Opponents argue assisted suicide is motivated by discouragement. Terminally ill patients tend to feel negative, depressed, melancholy, weak, and fearful. In "Why Do Patients Request Physician-Assisted Death (a.k.a. Physician-Assisted …show more content…
To clarify, medicine has a high price attached and the cost is sometimes redundant. In "The Right to Assisted Suicide", Esther De La Torre, a family and care doctor, states, "The cost of maintaining [a dying person]. . . has been estimated as ranging from about two thousand to ten thousand dollars a month." Although cost are put aside while patients are slowly dying, the cost of their lives are left with families. Furthermore, patients do not want to leave their families in financial debt. De La Torre argues, " many people . . . want to save their relatives the expense of keeping them pointlessly alive . . " Unfortunately, there is nothing a patient can do about bills mounting. Recapping, if terminally ill patients have the option to assisted suicide, medical cost would decrease, which is why this controversial subject should be a