A Short Summary On Assisted Suicide

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“There is not a cell in my body that is suicidal or wants to die, I want to live. I wish there was a cure for my disease but there’s not. My glioblastoma is going to kill me and that is out of my control. I’ve discussed with many experts how I would die from it and it’s a terrible terrible way to die. Being able to choose to go with dignity is less terrifying.” Put yourself in her shoes what would you do? Would you want to be kept alive by a machine even if you weren’t technically ‘living’? Brittany Maynard decided to travel to Switzerland – one of the few countries to offer assisted suicide – because she didn’t want the pain and suffering to be stretched out for any longer. Also surely anyone would agree that Brittany should’ve had the right …show more content…

It’s simply not good enough if someone is just surviving and living with a minimum quality and value of life knowing that they’re plausibly going to die shortly. The dying process is unpleasant. People shouldn’t feel obliged to accept medical treatment or extend ongoing treatment because they feel like that’s not what society, the doctors and nurses or their friends and family wants. These factors should not outweigh their desire to accept assisted suicide. However, although patients might have the right to die that does not, therefore, mean that their doctor has a duty to give it to them, the doctors should also be given the right to decline giving it to a patient if they don’t want to be the one ‘killing someone’.
In addition, assisted suicide would give patients an extra option. Legalising it doesn’t mean that every patient has to agree to it, only those who actively want it should be given it. It also gives the person the right to decide the one thing they would have control of at that time. Also, terminally ill patients should have the option of assisted suicide because even modern medicine can’t cure their illnesses it can only prolong their pain. Sometimes patients even beg their doctors to give them a lethal dose of medication because there are no other

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