Assisted Suicide Research Paper
Argument Synthesis Assignment: Should Assisted Suicide be legalized?
Cindy Alley
Stanly Community College
Rodney Alderman
Should Assisted Suicide be legalized?
Do people with incurable diseases or who are suffering great pain have a moral right to take their own lives? The term “assisted suicide” is defined as: the practice of a physician prescribing legal drugs that allow terminally ill patients to end their own lives. In assisted suicide, the physician only provides the drugs, not administer them. I think that assisted suicide should be legalized and it is a humane way to end pain and suffering for someone who is terminally ill because, it offers terminally ill people an opportunity for a peaceful death.
It has been argued that the reason why some terminally ill patients wish to commit suicide is nothing more than melancholia (a feeling of sadness and depression.) Patients suffering terminal illness might tend to be negative, hopeless, and depressed. Many physicians argue that in many cases, dying patients’ thinking is simply occupied by negative reactions to their critical condition. In other words, most of the reasons why terminally ill patients request doctors to assist them in committing suicide might be caused by problems …show more content…
That fact is supported by the Amendment XIV. “All persons born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process by law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” Therefore, the Constitution allows every person to have free will. Furthermore, the right of a terminally ill patient given six months or less to choose to kill themselves is not
Cindy Alley
Stanly Community College
Rodney Alderman
Should Assisted Suicide be legalized?
Do people with incurable diseases or who are suffering great pain have a moral right to take their own lives? The term “assisted suicide” is defined as: the practice of a physician prescribing legal drugs that allow terminally ill patients to end their own lives. In assisted suicide, the physician only provides the drugs, not administer them. I think that assisted suicide should be legalized and it is a humane way to end pain and suffering for someone who is terminally ill because, it offers terminally ill people an opportunity for a peaceful death.
It has been argued that the reason why some terminally ill patients wish to commit suicide is nothing more than melancholia (a feeling of sadness and depression.) Patients suffering terminal illness might tend to be negative, hopeless, and depressed. Many physicians argue that in many cases, dying patients’ thinking is simply occupied by negative reactions to their critical condition. In other words, most of the reasons why terminally ill patients request doctors to assist them in committing suicide might be caused by problems …show more content…
That fact is supported by the Amendment XIV. “All persons born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process by law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” Therefore, the Constitution allows every person to have free will. Furthermore, the right of a terminally ill patient given six months or less to choose to kill themselves is not