Why Do Medical Professionals Use Physician Assisted Suicide?

Being diagnosed with a disease known as terminal can impact a person in ways beyond the understanding of many. Medical professionals deal with these scenarios every day. They understand the devastation and the thoughts running through the mind. They understand the difficulties one will soon face after a diagnosis, and they are there to help. As the patient, all the individual can see is the loss of control, the fight ahead, and the disease that is pushing their body around. Now is the time to hand the control over to a medical professional, rather than giving into the diseases endpoint, and thus, allowing it the control.
As patients fight day by day, doctors are fighting by their side to gain back dominance over their bodies. Medical professionals have been trained to handle these situations, and continue to evolve as the practice evolves. Many believe physician-assisted suicide gives them the ability to take control, but by taking control, they steal that control from the trained medical professionals. Physician-assisted suicide, or PAS, will lead to the corruption of the medical industry, a fallback in medical research, and the loss of hope required by the ill.
There is more than a simple moral issue with this argument. It will impact more than the lives of those with chronic illnesses. The entire practice of medicine will …show more content…
The medical field must remain in control to continue the progression forward. Without a patient’s willingness to relinquish their control to a doctor, the medical field will cease to exist. The practice of medicine thrives on the will of humankind to live and grow. If this will is lost, the practice of medicine will be lost as well. Physician-assisted suicide will lead to the loss of control of medical professionals, and ultimately, the termination of medical practice throughout the