Imagine if you were lying in a hospital bed and you and your loved ones are being informed that your life has taken a turn for the worse, which has impacted your quality of life forever by having a terminal illness. Are you willing to make a decision to take the easy way out? What would your choice be? Do we truly have the right to cross the fine lines of life and death? Do you think we have the right to decide who gets to live and who doesn’t? Physician-Assisted Suicide (PAS) should not be legalized because it would empower physicians to focus more on putting someone’s life on a cost-saving analysis, go against their oath of preservation of life as adapted in the Hippocrates oath, and their better judgment would always be at question.
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For example, in the article, “Treating the Pain by Ending a Life”, by Marc Siegel, he depicts a story of a patient of his suffering from cancer in her pancreas, which is considered painful. Marc Siegel argues that when he and his patient made the decision to go on and perform PAS, Siegel describes the aftermath as, “…a tortured life for a peaceful death, and all thanked me for my care at the end” (Siegel 821). In other words, Siegel describes the reaction of the family and friends’ reaction to the patient’s death, which might be considered as satisfying the patient’s decision. In addition, in the essay, “A Crime of Compassion”, by Barbara Huttmann, she expresses the way Mac felt while bathing him asking her to be merciful and let him go (Huttmann 817). In other words, Huttmann felt that she was doing the morally justified thing for Mac by injecting the lethal medication into his IV relieving him from the atrocious pain he was in. Finally, people mostly believe that legalizing PAS would satisfy …show more content…
For instance, in the article, “Why Progressives Should Oppose the Legalization of Assisted Suicide” by Marylin Golden, she argues that “the cost of the lethal injection…is about $35 to $50… [which] [is] cheaper than the cost of treatment”(Golden 829). In other words, physicians have a tendency of favoring lower cost and reduction of man hours versus treating the patients the right way with an ethical mindset. In addition, in the article, “The Right to Pain Control”, by Doctor Eugene F. Diamond, who is a professor of pediatrics at Loyola University, argues that with the new Obamacare, “cures will no longer be attempted for certain vulnerable patients…” (Diamond 237). In other words, Diamond is trying to express on how physicians are denying the treatment for pain control in order to reduce costs and minimize physician-patient treatment
Many …show more content…
For example, in the article, “Treating the Pain by Ending a Life”, by Marc Siegel, he depicts a story of a patient of his suffering from cancer in her pancreas, which is considered painful. Marc Siegel argues that when he and his patient made the decision to go on and perform PAS, Siegel describes the aftermath as, “…a tortured life for a peaceful death, and all thanked me for my care at the end” (Siegel 821). In other words, Siegel describes the reaction of the family and friends’ reaction to the patient’s death, which might be considered as satisfying the patient’s decision. In addition, in the essay, “A Crime of Compassion”, by Barbara Huttmann, she expresses the way Mac felt while bathing him asking her to be merciful and let him go (Huttmann 817). In other words, Huttmann felt that she was doing the morally justified thing for Mac by injecting the lethal medication into his IV relieving him from the atrocious pain he was in. Finally, people mostly believe that legalizing PAS would satisfy …show more content…
For instance, in the article, “Why Progressives Should Oppose the Legalization of Assisted Suicide” by Marylin Golden, she argues that “the cost of the lethal injection…is about $35 to $50… [which] [is] cheaper than the cost of treatment”(Golden 829). In other words, physicians have a tendency of favoring lower cost and reduction of man hours versus treating the patients the right way with an ethical mindset. In addition, in the article, “The Right to Pain Control”, by Doctor Eugene F. Diamond, who is a professor of pediatrics at Loyola University, argues that with the new Obamacare, “cures will no longer be attempted for certain vulnerable patients…” (Diamond 237). In other words, Diamond is trying to express on how physicians are denying the treatment for pain control in order to reduce costs and minimize physician-patient treatment