Arguments Against Pas

If a family member was terminally ill, would you want them to suffer in physical and emotional pain everyday, or would you want their suffering to end? Physician assisted suicide (or PAS) is the process where a doctor is allowed to aid in a terminally ill patient’s decision to die. Physician assisted suicide should be legal in all fifty states. Three statements that support PAS being legalized are it will end the patient’s and family’s suffering, patients will have the option to die in dignity, and the choice to live or die should be legal. Although some physicians argue it is in direct violation to the Hippocratic Oath and it is unethical to kill a patient, the Hippocratic Oath is outdated and it is more unethical to leave a patient in pain when all other pain management options fail.

In the first place, if physician assisted suicide is legalized, it will help end the suffering of terminally
If a patient wants help with staying alive they get it, but they don’t if they want to die. If they want their suffering

to end. It is unfair and unjust to keep someone alive who does not wish to be kept alive. A article on NIH.gov titled “A legal right to die: responding to slippery slope and abuse arguments” reads, “ To be forced to continue living a life that one deems intolerable when there are doctors who are willing either to end one’s life or to assist one in ending one’s own life, is an unspeakable violation of an individual’s freedom to live—and to die—as he or she sees fit.”

In conclusion, physician assisted suicide should be legal in all fifty states. PAS would give terminally ill patients the option to die in peace, die with dignity, and it should be a legal right to choose to die and get assistance from professionals. If legalized, physician assisted suicide will help ease the process of dying for the patient and help with the grieving process for family