Assisted Suicide In Canada

INTRODUCTION
When you think of the word ‘suicide’, it is commonly associated with an act of selfishness. However, assisted suicide is the act of a taking a lethal drug provided by a doctor with a purpose to end a patient’s life, whom is suffering from an incurable disease. A federal legislation came into force generating substructure for medical assistance in dying in Canada on June 17, 2016 (Government of Canada, 2018). That following year, reported 1,179 Canadian’s ended their lives legally under this act. These patients mainly suffered from terminal cancer, representing approximately 63% of assisted suicide cases (Harris, 2017).
FRIST PARAGRAPH – COSTS
A huge ethical debate in Canada is the cost of health care and what can be done to decrease …show more content…
Including the physicians that need to attend to the patient. Supplies needed to ensure that patient is clean, comfortable and content. Not to mention the staff to ensure all of these supplies are sterile, put away and ready for next use.
A study was conducted in Ontario that estimated $14,000 per patient that undergoes 30 days in the hospital, receiving intensive treatment that could save their life or only make death more difficult (Kirkey, 2017).

This new law has become an option for those whom feel the need that fatality will put them at peace. It is not a suggestion that assisted death should be chosen over the innate route.

“Neither patients nor physicians should consider costs when making the very personal decision to request, or provide, this …show more content…
This can affect the way a patient changes their mind frequently as they may not be in their right frame of mind. Thus meaning, when patients are ill, they may not think everything thoroughly at all times.
Physicians are not compelled to offer medically assisted death. Unfortunately, by legislation they have to refer the patient to a physician who will comply with that request. Some feel as though this act is still participating in assisting that patient’s death. Most physicians do not agree, but by law must follow their duties. A Canadian doctor stated,
‘“as a compassionate physical, I need not – indeed, I cannot – aim to end a patient’s life in order to do them good. I have other means at my disposal to relieve their physical suffering and I do not know on the bases of biomedical science what it is like beyond the grave.”’ (CBC News, 2017).

This is explaining that although it is part of their job to comply with these actions, they do not want to. They were taught to heal patients from suffering within their practice of medicine, avoiding

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