Physician Assisted Suicide Argumentative Essay

Imagine being told someone close to you has a given number of days/months left to live. On top of the suffering, they’re slowly becoming weaker, and with the disease taking over their body, they don’t have the strength to be themselves anymore. This is when physician assisted suicide comes into play. Physician assisted suicide is when a terminally ill patient has the right to decide when they want to die. If a patient chooses this path, their doctor will give them a drug that will take their life painlessly and stop their suffering. With most of these laws the patients has to be under certain conditions and have an allotted amount of time left to live. Physician Assisted Suicide is highly debated and legal in few places. Only four out of fifty …show more content…
In Angells’ article she showed her beliefs on why certain counter arguments are FINDWORD. For people that believe “physicians are only healers” (5) she says “This is a form of abandonment, in which Doctors prize their self-image above patients’ needs” (6). For the people that argue patients could choose this method when they are depressed, she shows that the laws passing this practice can only be used for patients under certain conditions, and depression is not one of them. Last but not least for the people who argue “Good palliative care can relieve all suffering” (9) she argues “Why should anyone tell someone else how much suffering they must endure while dying” (9)? While Angell showed more stats and her personal beliefs, Aleccia shows the ethics by writing about a dad (Remmel) who chose physician assisted suicide from the eyes of his doctor, his family, and his blog. Aleccias’ article has quotes from the doctor describing how much physician assisted suicide has evolved in the medical field since Remmel; who chose to use this option in its earlier days. With this she also has quotes pieces Remmel wrote in his blog, and what his wife thought about the whole situation. Aleccias’ article shows the personal side of physician assisted suicide and what’s going on behind the

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Physician Assisted Suicide Argumentative Essay