Argumentative Essay: Californians Against Assisted Suicide
California becomes one of the five states to allow terminally ill patients to end their lives when they have less than six months to live, and are mentally fit to take the medicine.
The law is expected to increase three folds the number of terminally ill people around the US who can now choose to die.
The bill was signed into legislation by Governor Jerry Brown in October, which took effect this week.
"I do not know what I would do if I were dying in prolonged and excruciating pain. I am certain, however, that it would be a comfort to be able to consider the options afforded by this bill. And I wouldn't deny that right to others," Brown said.
The patients, above the age of 18, will have to give one written and two oral requests at least …show more content…
Californians Against Assisted Suicide released a statement in which 32-year-old Stephanie Packer, suffering from a terminal illness said, "Unfortunately this vote sends a message to people like me that suicide is a preferred option."
Disability groups say that sick patients might be led into physician assisted deaths by uncaring relatives to avoid high medical costs and insurance deficits.
Religious group say that the state's poorer communities will be the most pressured group to take the lethal medicines as a way out of expensive long-term care.
"Lawmakers did not have any chance to consider the deeper issues raised by end-of-life care in the state - the cost of treatments, especially the cost of cancer medications; insurance practices that limit access to hospice care and physicians' options in providing adequate pain relief; the impact of this legislation on the poor and other underserved populations," Los Angeles Archbishop José Gomez wrote in an online
The law is expected to increase three folds the number of terminally ill people around the US who can now choose to die.
The bill was signed into legislation by Governor Jerry Brown in October, which took effect this week.
"I do not know what I would do if I were dying in prolonged and excruciating pain. I am certain, however, that it would be a comfort to be able to consider the options afforded by this bill. And I wouldn't deny that right to others," Brown said.
The patients, above the age of 18, will have to give one written and two oral requests at least …show more content…
Californians Against Assisted Suicide released a statement in which 32-year-old Stephanie Packer, suffering from a terminal illness said, "Unfortunately this vote sends a message to people like me that suicide is a preferred option."
Disability groups say that sick patients might be led into physician assisted deaths by uncaring relatives to avoid high medical costs and insurance deficits.
Religious group say that the state's poorer communities will be the most pressured group to take the lethal medicines as a way out of expensive long-term care.
"Lawmakers did not have any chance to consider the deeper issues raised by end-of-life care in the state - the cost of treatments, especially the cost of cancer medications; insurance practices that limit access to hospice care and physicians' options in providing adequate pain relief; the impact of this legislation on the poor and other underserved populations," Los Angeles Archbishop José Gomez wrote in an online