Physician Assisted Suicide

In today's society suicide is seen as something ghastly, but what about Physician-assisted Suicide? how is it seen? Is it still just as bad as a “regular suicide” or is it different because it is being done by a professional? Most cases of suicide are performed by the person themselves over 34,000 people commit suicide a year, in later years suicide will bypass deaths from cancer, stroke, war and accidents according to the World Health Organization. Most people who do not have an illness commit suicide due to depression or other mental issues that affect the way they live. Seeing this now suicide itself is horrid, but what most people do not see or understand is that Assisted suicide is usually performed by a doctor on a person who …show more content…
Assisted suicide is the direct killing off of a person, usually by injections of a legal substance, it is legal in the Netherlands with or without the consent of the patient. There are guidelines that have been adopted to allow the killing of newborns with disabilities. It is also Legal in Belgium and Luxembourg. In Oregon, the physician must be a doctor of medicine, or a doctor of Osteopathy licensed to practice medicine by the board of medical examiners for the state or Oregon. In which the physician must be willing to perform the ACT currently in Kentucky and other surrounding states not named Assisted Suicide is illegal which Should be alternated to being legal due to the sanity of the appeal. According to the Website ( The Ethics and religious liberty commission ) an article written by ( Carter, Joe “ 5 Facts about Physician Assisted Suicide in America¨ states ¨ Earlier this week California became the latest—and most populous—state to pass an assisted dying bill. The California law, which was modeled on an Oregon law, will permit physicians to provide lethal prescriptions to mentally competent adults who have been diagnosed with a terminal illness and face the expectation that they will die within six …show more content…
The American Medical Association opposes PAS and says it is “fundamentally incompatible with the physician’s role as healer, would be difficult or impossible to control, and would pose serious societal risks.” 4. In the case of Washington v. Glucksberg (1997), the Supreme Court ruled that the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment does not guarantee an individual the right to PAS. The Court ruled that since the individual states can have a legitimate interest in prohibiting PAS. The ruling made it clear that legalizing or criminalizing PAS was a matter of states' rights. 5. Even in states where it is legal, there is not much demand for PAS. In 2013, 77 people in Oregon died by PAS, accounting for 0.21 percent of all deaths in the state. Similarly, in Washington in 2014 there were 170 deaths due to PAS, accounting for 0.33 percent of all deaths. (If PAS was legal in all 50 states and accounted for 0.25 percent of deaths in 2014 (2,596,993), there would have been 6,492 physician-assisted suicides.) “ which describes most facts that people do not understand the argument for and against legalizing assisted

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