Persuasive Essay Euthanasia
The issue of medically assisted suicide has been around for the last hundred years and was just recently allowed by the Ontario provincial government. Medically assisted suicide is the process of ending someone's life by lethal injection. This steps society towards helping to end someone's terminal suffering, the drugs used in medically assisted suicide are sodium thiopental (to induce unconsciousness), pancuronium bromide to (cause respiratory arrest and muscle paralysis) and potassium chloride(to stop the heart). Even though euthanasia carries a negative interpretation, we must acknowledge that euthanasia is the act of putting someone to death painlessly. Many terminally ill patients have requested that they are to be relieved of their suffering.
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By offering medically assisted suicide is to relieve pain from a disease of which no medicine can cure, palliative care is to provide artificial medicine to keep the person alive.
By banning Doctor-assisted death doesn't stop it, each year, a handful of gravely ill Canadians travel to Switzerland for a medically assisted death. The cost $20,000 to $30,000 when you account for flights and accommodation. Many people are already exiting the country to get access to doctor-assisted death, but if they had the option to die with dignity here they wouldn't have to spend tens of thousands of dollars on a flight to Switzerland or any other country of which assisted death is legal, they can get relief here without having to pay huge medical bills or an expensive flight to another country.
Many people think that a doctor's role is to prevent suffering, and by allowing doctor-assisted death, it would just break the trust with the patient and the doctor. But in practice offering someone relief from an illness of which no medicine can cure is all about compassion. Forcing people to endure unwanted, intolerable suffering is inhumane and wrong. As a compassionate society, we must offer information and choices to those who face the prospect of a horrific
By offering medically assisted suicide is to relieve pain from a disease of which no medicine can cure, palliative care is to provide artificial medicine to keep the person alive.
By banning Doctor-assisted death doesn't stop it, each year, a handful of gravely ill Canadians travel to Switzerland for a medically assisted death. The cost $20,000 to $30,000 when you account for flights and accommodation. Many people are already exiting the country to get access to doctor-assisted death, but if they had the option to die with dignity here they wouldn't have to spend tens of thousands of dollars on a flight to Switzerland or any other country of which assisted death is legal, they can get relief here without having to pay huge medical bills or an expensive flight to another country.
Many people think that a doctor's role is to prevent suffering, and by allowing doctor-assisted death, it would just break the trust with the patient and the doctor. But in practice offering someone relief from an illness of which no medicine can cure is all about compassion. Forcing people to endure unwanted, intolerable suffering is inhumane and wrong. As a compassionate society, we must offer information and choices to those who face the prospect of a horrific