Assisted Suicide Case Study

Assisted Suicide There are many court cases that deal with assisted suicide. Many people think that assisted suicide should be passed under the law, and other people think that it should not be passed under the law. I am going to be talking about 3 court cases that may or may not be considered as assisted suicide. In my point of view, I believe that assisted suicide should not be permitted. I am going to be discussing the Washington v. Glucksberg, Gonzalez v. Oregon, and Vacco v. Quill.
In the Washington vs Glucksberg case the trial was held because Glucksberg was not comfortable that Washington physicians could assist the suicide of patients whether they wanted it to be that way. It was first argued January 8,1997 and was later decided by supreme court officials that they were not convicted for assisted suicide. Washington appealed for the ninths circuit. Glucksberg alleged that Washington’s ban was unconstitutional. District later on ruled a favor to Glucksberg and his following petitioners, the ninth circuit had approved that the supreme court granted Washington certiorari. According to the
It was argued in October 5, 2005 and the supreme court decide on January 17, 2006. In the court case of Gonzales v. Oregon, Oregon physicians would prescribe patients with drugs that would terminally kill them, if the patients would like to do so. The court case of Gonzalez v. Oregon resolves a problem between the states death with the dignity act (DWDA) and the attorneys general understanding of the federal drug statue. Not only that but Oregon is the only state that has an assisted suicide law. The assisted suicide law was passed in Oregon in 1994, the justice department, under attorney general Janet Reno, was determined that the law did not violate the CSA. However, in 2001, attorney John Ashcroft improved the law by banning assisted suicide, but allowing physicians to be taught how to assist