Assisted Suicide Should Not Be Legal

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Assisted Suicide has been a controversial issue for some time now. It is also confused

with the term euthanasia; however the two do not mean the same thing. Euthanasia is the killing

of another to relieve their pain; whereas assisted suicide is the practice where an individual assist

the person committing suicide. The practice of both of these issues reliefs the person that is in

pain. Assisted suicide has positive and negative issues. There is a debate on whether it should be

legal or not. Some of the positive issues on assisted suicide are it reliefs a person from the pain

they are in. The person has the right to choose how they want to die because that falls under the

equal protections clause. Oncology patients don’t necessary like the idea of physician assistant

suicide. Some negative issues of assisted suicide are that it violates ethics that people may have.

Also it is compared to Euthanasia and people find that to be just as bad as assisted suicide.

Assisted nor Physician Assisted suicide should be legal in the U.S. In the following essay the

articles Technical Difficulties and National Center for Biotechnology Information will help with

support and evidence as to why there are benefits and negative issues to assisted suicide, but no

matter what it should still not be legal.

Assisted suicide has some benefits. One of those benefits is that it helps to end the

suffering of the person that is in pain. There was a case of a woman a few years ago who was in

pain and the court denied her the request that her husband help her end her life. According to

Professors Len Doyal and Lesly Doyal from National Center for Biotechnology Information state

that,

Diane Pretty was refused the legal right to choose the circu...

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...s, but it

still however does not change the fact that it is morally wrong to make it legal. It is already

illegal here in the United States. One state may have something legal that is similar to assisted

suicide but it has a different name. That should be revoked and made illegal.

Works Cited

“The Lancet.com – Technical Difficulties.” Thelancet.com – Technical Difficulties. N.p.,

n.d. Web. 27 Mar. 2014.

Doyal, Len, and Lesley Doyal. “Acknowledgments.” National Center for Biotechnology

Information. U.S. National Library of Medicine, 10 Nov. 2001. Web 28 Mar. 2014

“Equal Protection | World Of Criminal Justice, Gale – Gredo Reference.” Equal

Protection |World Of Criminal Justice, Gale – Credo Reference. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Mar.

2014.

“Credo Reference Where Are You From?” Credo Reference Where Are You From? N.p.,

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