What Assisted Suicide Is?

In Dictionary.com, retrieved November 20th, 2018, The definition of Assisted Suicide is suicide facilitated by another person, especially a physician, who organizes the logistics of the suicide, as by providing the necessary quantities of a poison.

Assisted Suicide is for someone who has a terminal illness with six months or less to live.

They have less aggressive ways to say assisted suicide like physician assisted death, aid in dying, euthanasia (good death), death with dignity, DNR (do not resuscitate), and DNI (do not intubate).

Unknown author, a article in ProCon.org, titled State-by-State Guide to Physician-Assisted Suicide, published July 7th, 2018, that 6 states (CA, CO, HI, OR, VT, and WA) and DC legalized physician-assisted suicide via legislation, and 1 state (MT) has legal physician-assisted suicide via court ruling.

However in Oregon and Washington by law the individual has to administer the medication themselves.

Making 43 of the other states illegal to have and forms of assisted suicide.

A lot of family members and the patient do not agree with this due to religious purposes, moral rights, or they just do not feel comfortable doing it. But there are many who do and are thankful for it at the end.

Sarah Lyell, a article in The New York Times, titled The Last Thing Mom Asked, published August 31, 2018, I know what Im supposed to do, because she has told me many times. One of the stories passed down as gospel in our tiny family is about how my late father, a doctor, helped his own mother ” my grandmother Cecilia, whom I never met ” at the end of her life. Her cancer was unbearable. So he gave her a big dose of morphine to stop the pain, my mother has always told my brother and me, as if reaching the end of a fairy tale. It had the side effect of stopping her heart. With this all she wanted was for her mother to be comfortable and out of pain.

Transition: Which brings me to my next point the cost and the different types.

Main point: The cost and the different types of drugs used.

You may think the cost of the drug is significant to the pocket and insurance will not cover it. Wrong

A lot of these patients instead of insurance companies paying for their chemotherapy treatments they will instead pay for assisted because it would cost a lot less.

Unknown author, a article from Death With Dignity, titled What Kind Of Prescription Will I Receive and How Much The Medication Cost, published unknown, It is up to the physician to determine the prescription. To date, most patients have received a prescription for an oral dosage of a barbiturate (pentobarbital or secobarbital). But many will use other forms as well like morphine, Insulin, Oxycodone, or whatever else they can get from hospice facilities.

With the cost of these medications can vary between hundreds to thousands of dollars. Pentobarbital in liquid cost about $500 till 2012 when Europe refused to send it to them because it was being used as capital punishment which jumped the price to 15,000 to 20,000.

Which after the drastic price increase they went to powder form dropping the price back down to $500 or cheaper actually.

The other drug is secobarbital which is a mix of pentobarbital and morphing which can cost from $400 to $500 and there is a secondary for of this type as well which just adds Valium and Digoxin which about $600 to $700.

Chemotherapy can vary in price from a couple thousand dollars to several hundreds of thousand dollars. With insurance that can be a couple thousand dollars and without insurance it can be hundreds of thousands. Which is why some insurance companies will pay for the assistant suicide then pay for chemo treatments.

Transition: Which brings me to my next topic having it available for everyone.

Main point: Having assisted suicide be available for everyone.

Arthur J. Dyck, a article from The Center Of Biometric & Human Dignity, titled Life's Worth: The Case against Assisted Suicide, published unknown, My experiences have served to convince me that euthanasia, even if voluntary, is fundamentally wrong and I'm now staunchly against it on religious, moral, intellectual and spiritual grounds. My wife's views have changed similarly.

He did not want assisted suicide once he got into a hospice facility. But with hospice facilities they start accepting patients when they also have six more or less left of their time.

So than what about the other patients who do have cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and many other illnesses. That have 6 months or longer to live and they would have to suffer.

There are also only seven states who do assisted suicide because other states believe it is morally wrong, goes against religion, and just not acceptable in their views.

The cost of assisted suicide is not much compared to the cost of cancer treatments, medicine and in house nurses, and the time spent at home unhappy.

Most individuals either go to a hospice facility, stay at home, or hospitals.

A lot of patients who can't afford a hospice, in house nurse, medications, and have no one.

There is also the issue that if the family does not agree with your wishes so you do it yourself and your family walks in to see you like that.

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