Physician-Assisted Suicide
Phill-1130
Term Paper
7 May 2013
Physician-Assisted Suicide, Wrong or Wrong? Why it is unjust and unmoral to approve of medical assistants in the pursuit of death, such as suicide if the patients ask for such help? There are two side to every argument, there are some people that believe that is is morally ethical to receive PAS (Physician-Assisted Suicide). Then, of course there’s the opposing side to the debate in which this paper will cover and that side is :The medical practice is PAS is unjust, unmoral and shouldn’t be legalized for the fact the the will of life out powers a moment of misery. Why would someone ever think that PAS is morally acceptable in todays medical practice? Euthanasia is one of the key terms that need to be defined when talking about PAS. 1Euthanasia is the act of bringing about the death of a hopelessly ill and suffering person in a relatively quick and painless way for reasons of mercy. A philosopher by the name of James Rachels is in favor of Euthanasia. 2He defends Euthanasia by stating that “Killing someone isn’t morally worst than letting someone die.” He believe that in letting someone die that is an action and because death is no worst than living in certain circumstances which in some way gives justification to cause someones death. 3In the debate of legalizing PAS there is one principles on which all of organized medicine agrees on that the principle of patient bodily integrity requires that physicians must respect patients’ competent decisions to forgo life-sustaining treatment. Which is something all physicians understand and familiarize themselves with before really going into the medical field, this does cause a road block in saving lives, if those lives in fact don’t want to be saved. People whom are for PAS may look at the pros in this medical procedure like The right to die should be a fundamental freedom of each person. Nowhere in the constitution does it state or imply that the government has the right to
Term Paper
7 May 2013
Physician-Assisted Suicide, Wrong or Wrong? Why it is unjust and unmoral to approve of medical assistants in the pursuit of death, such as suicide if the patients ask for such help? There are two side to every argument, there are some people that believe that is is morally ethical to receive PAS (Physician-Assisted Suicide). Then, of course there’s the opposing side to the debate in which this paper will cover and that side is :The medical practice is PAS is unjust, unmoral and shouldn’t be legalized for the fact the the will of life out powers a moment of misery. Why would someone ever think that PAS is morally acceptable in todays medical practice? Euthanasia is one of the key terms that need to be defined when talking about PAS. 1Euthanasia is the act of bringing about the death of a hopelessly ill and suffering person in a relatively quick and painless way for reasons of mercy. A philosopher by the name of James Rachels is in favor of Euthanasia. 2He defends Euthanasia by stating that “Killing someone isn’t morally worst than letting someone die.” He believe that in letting someone die that is an action and because death is no worst than living in certain circumstances which in some way gives justification to cause someones death. 3In the debate of legalizing PAS there is one principles on which all of organized medicine agrees on that the principle of patient bodily integrity requires that physicians must respect patients’ competent decisions to forgo life-sustaining treatment. Which is something all physicians understand and familiarize themselves with before really going into the medical field, this does cause a road block in saving lives, if those lives in fact don’t want to be saved. People whom are for PAS may look at the pros in this medical procedure like The right to die should be a fundamental freedom of each person. Nowhere in the constitution does it state or imply that the government has the right to