What if someone in your life that you cared so much about was dying and you were not aware of the situation until it was too late to save her? Your best friend of eighteen years that you have done everything under the sun with such as going on camping trips, to awaiting the arrival of your nieces and nephews and taking on the journey of becoming aunts together, and all things good and bad in between. Then one day everything suddenly changes, and that perfect future you both have been planning your whole lives is completely changed. You find out that all those summer days you thought you did not need sunscreen your body is now telling you otherwise. Little did either of you know that your best friend has had an aggressive skin cancer long enough
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For me, this is a hard question to answer because there is a lot to consider. In thinking through this carefully I have tried to imagine myself in the shoes of someone who is terminally ill, and also as someone who has a disease that has no cure and will only leave me suffering for the rest of my life. In the situation of having a terminal illness or incurable disease, I do not think that physician-assisted suicide would be wrong, if the patient’s life is depending on a machine or something of the sort to keep them alive. However, I believe that Euthanasia would be wrong in both cases if the patient could still live without the aid of a machine or life altering medical assistance. Not only would you be claiming your own life, which I believe is wrong no matter how much one may think it is the answer to one’s problems, but you would be putting the physician over you, and your family in a very difficult situation. Doctors are required to take oaths to save lives, and by physician assisted suicide, the doctor would not be saving a life but losing one. Also, for the families, they would feel like they were cheated out of time with their loved one, and that the physician did not do everything he could to help their …show more content…
However, I do not believe that someone who decides to cancel any life altering measures to keep the patient alive is wrong if his or her body is shutting down on its own and is decaying naturally. If we had not advanced in medicine as far as we have then people would have no choice but to die naturally, unless they choose suicide of course. So it does not make it different today when a patient who wishes to die chooses not to be kept alive by medicine or machines. But if the patient’s doctor distributes the patient with the medication to end the patient’s life, the doctor would be considered killing the patient as it is defined as “mercy killing”, and doctor’s took an oath to heal people, not kill them. I also believe that physician-assisted suicide is wrong, because even though the doctor may not be distributing the medication to the patient, the doctor is still providing the lethal drugs that will be used in order to end a
For me, this is a hard question to answer because there is a lot to consider. In thinking through this carefully I have tried to imagine myself in the shoes of someone who is terminally ill, and also as someone who has a disease that has no cure and will only leave me suffering for the rest of my life. In the situation of having a terminal illness or incurable disease, I do not think that physician-assisted suicide would be wrong, if the patient’s life is depending on a machine or something of the sort to keep them alive. However, I believe that Euthanasia would be wrong in both cases if the patient could still live without the aid of a machine or life altering medical assistance. Not only would you be claiming your own life, which I believe is wrong no matter how much one may think it is the answer to one’s problems, but you would be putting the physician over you, and your family in a very difficult situation. Doctors are required to take oaths to save lives, and by physician assisted suicide, the doctor would not be saving a life but losing one. Also, for the families, they would feel like they were cheated out of time with their loved one, and that the physician did not do everything he could to help their …show more content…
However, I do not believe that someone who decides to cancel any life altering measures to keep the patient alive is wrong if his or her body is shutting down on its own and is decaying naturally. If we had not advanced in medicine as far as we have then people would have no choice but to die naturally, unless they choose suicide of course. So it does not make it different today when a patient who wishes to die chooses not to be kept alive by medicine or machines. But if the patient’s doctor distributes the patient with the medication to end the patient’s life, the doctor would be considered killing the patient as it is defined as “mercy killing”, and doctor’s took an oath to heal people, not kill them. I also believe that physician-assisted suicide is wrong, because even though the doctor may not be distributing the medication to the patient, the doctor is still providing the lethal drugs that will be used in order to end a