Difference Between Euthanasia And Assisted Suicide

Are euthanasia and assisted suicide the same? No, euthanasia is the willing of the patient to be killed by a lethal injection, or any other means of killing a patient. Assisted suicide is where a patient asks the doctor to prescribe a lethal amount of drugs to someone. The difference is that Euthanasia can be taking someone off life support and assisted suicide is a prescribed lethal drug. Euthanasia is the most ethical way, out of the two, to put someone down.

There are many ways of euthanizing someone. An example from Patients Rights Council is, “In this report, euthanasia is defined as intentionally, knowingly and directly acting to cause the death of another person (e.g., giving a lethal injection)” (Marker). There are more than just

a lethal injection; it can be the doctors purposely, with permission, forget to turn on the feeding tube. Prescribed overdose, with your consent, is not considered euthanasia. According to the US National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health, Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg have legalized euthanization of people while Oregon and Washington legalized physician-assisted suicide (PMC). The differences in the two legalized ways of assisting death is one is done by a physician and one is done by a doctor. They are physician-assisted suicide (PAS) and euthanasia are under the argument of euthanasia. People like the United Nations do not really agree with euthanizing people, and the Hippocratic Oath is one of the reasons.
Many doctors, surgeons, and veterinarians all have to take an oath, called the Hippocratic Oath.

The Hippocratic Oath states, in simplest terms, that they cannot kill any patient. There is an exception for euthanasia and assisted suicide. In BBC News stated, “Euthanasia is against the law in the UK where it is illegal to help anyone kill themselves. Voluntary euthanasia or assisted suicide can lead to imprisonment of up to 14 years.” After a big debate and statistics they changed their law, some questions were was it morally right or ethically right. This is a more of a morally right thing to do, based off of the Hippocratic Oath. Their morals call euthanasia as “mercy killing” according to BBC News (qtd. in BBC). Mercy killing is killing someone so they don’t have to suffer. In conclusion euthanasia is. There are many reasons why they would do

so.
There are many reason why people would get euthanized. According to BBC News:
Most people think unbearable pain is the main reason people seek euthanasia, but some surveys in the USA and the Netherlands showed that less than a third of requests for euthanasia were because of severe pain.

Terminally ill people can have their quality of life severely damaged by physical conditions such as incontinence, nausea and vomiting, breathlessness, paralysis and difficulty in swallowing. Psychological factors that cause people to think of euthanasia include depression, fearing loss of control or dignity, feeling a burden, or dislike of being dependent.(BBC)

People who are depressed, terminally ill, and anyway people are going to eventually commit suicide might as well do euthanasia so the police don’t have to get involved in a suicide case. This would benefit ethically but also make people’s lives easier. According to the National Library of Medicine and the National Health Institute, anyone needs a written consent before doing so. This is so family members aren’t doing it to harm someone or make sure they really want to go with it.

Euthanasia is a more ethical way to put someone down than assisted suicide. Euthanasia is used as a death sentence in some places, why not the terminally ill. If someone wants to commit suicide might as well do it humanely. It is better than overdosing purposely. Choose wisely which one is legal and which one is

not.