Doctor Assisted Suicide

While taking your own life may be wrong, Doctor-assisted suicide should be acceptable because the patient or individual may feel the need to undergo the process of Doctor-assisted suicide because they are suffering from something that may be making life difficult for them. Also, people may feel the need to undergo a procedure like this because they feel like it is their only hope and they just want to be put to rest. The individual most of the time is experiencing something that some people cannot around them cannot understand and they feel like they are trapped in an unbearable situation that they cannot cope with and feel the need to ask a doctor for help and put them to sleep. Again it may seem wrong but Doctor-assisted suicide is the better alternative to having to suffer through all the problems and deep pain that the person may be facing. On the other hand it also it helps the individual finally be relieved of all the pain that they may be feeling on the inside and out. Although it may seem unlikely but there is a possibility that a person gets themselves into a terrible situation resulting in a horrible injury but it is possible. Chances are that someone might be put in a situation as grave as this. If so I should be legal for the person to make their own choice and chose to take their own life because this procedure gives them something that medicine cannot give them.

A good example of a people who may need this procedure might be patients that are Terminally ill meaning that they have a disease that is not able to be cured. These people would rather be put to sleep than to have to suffer the rest of their life knowing they have this disease that causes them such great pain and will never be cured. In a situation like that the person may believe that the best choice is to be put to death. Also being put to death by a Doctor is also the best choice for a terminally ill patient because it reduces the fear of the patient because he knows that his death will be painless and he wont have to live through his current pain and suffering. The important part of the topic is that people understand that these patients are not choosing to Die because they want to simply just die. They are asking to be put to death because they are in such deep pain and suffering that they cannot express to others. This specific procedure is currently only available in 7 States and for the procedure to be approved "the physician must be a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) or Doctor of Osteopathy (D.O.) licensed to practice medicine by the Board of Medical Examiners for the State of Oregon. The physician must also be willing to participate in the Act." (CNN) The Doctor also has to verify that the patient is a resident of the State that the procedure is legal in.

The problem with this is that this is currently only legal in 7 states but all people should have the right to be put to death if they really have to need to undergo the process but that is for the State to decide on. People should have the right to chose to die. If the Individual feels the need to do it it should be completely legal to do so but the law states that As soon as one takes steps to end the life of another, they may become criminally liable for homicide. (HG Legal Resources) but it really does not make much sense. People should be able to be put to death if they want to because it is their own body but the law forbids this practice for a reason that remains very unclear to the public. The reason Physician Assisted suicide is illegal is not clearly stated by the court of law but the other main argument is that such practices are immoral and state that Doctors who commit these crimes have violated many of the rules and values that they agreed to follow when they became a doctor. (LEP). But many believe against this because it's not immoral if the patient is suffering and really needs this procedure. It is more immoral to let the patient suffer just because people believe it's not ok for a person to be put to death but people do not have the slightest idea of what these people might be going through. But then again this is still immoral in the eyes of the law and the public. The choice belongs to the person who feels the need to die not the law that forbids this act.

There are many people in the United States and even in the World that need this procedure because they dont want to suffer through something, not even their worst enemy deserves. There are innocent people that have Terminal illnesses and each one of them have to fight through the pain, the tears, and sorrow to have to put up with another day of agony knowing that they will never be cured just because it is immoral and illegal to be put to sleep by a Doctor who is only trying to calm the patient down and finally put them at peace. The people should have the right to make the choice they think is best for them. The Practice Doctor Assisted Suicide should be acceptable and legal for anyone with the need of it because they do not deserve to suffer what they are going through.

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