Assisted Death Research Paper

The assisted death movement gained traction and popularity in the early 90’s, making the death with dignity laws a fairly new and recent controversial topic. Oregon was the first state whose legislation passed a death with dignity bill and are looked upon for guidance. About 20 years ago in 1997 the Supreme court gave the state lawmakers jurisdiction over the right to assisted deaths in the washington V Glucksberg case. Laws both legalizing and prohibiting Death with dignity were found to be constitutional. Today there are still 0 federal laws for or against death with dignity however, it has been legalized in 6 states, 4 states have no official legislation and in the remaining states assisted death has been ruled illegal. Death With Dignity
Liberty and autonomy are sources of human dignity, too. Both add to the value of a life. In secular society, it is odd to buttress the sanctity of life in the abstract by subjecting a lot of particular lives to unbearable pain, misery and suffering.Even though many people would argue that physician assisted death is unethical and wrong about the reasoning being that life is sacred and valuable, there is a fine line between living a good life and living in excruciating pain up until the time of death. Life is valuable enough that we should know when it's time to allow someone to move onto death rather than force them to bear the pain they are feeling. Life is sacred enough that is needs to be recognized as something that we need to value while its still here and accept when the person is in enough pain that they want to end it. Patient assisted death preserves a dignified death over preserving a painful end to life. When an animal is sick or injured and there is nothing that can be done to help it, we would always put it down because it's the humane thing to do. Human life is more valuable than any animal's life, so why don't we do the same thing when a person's health situation is painful and will not get better? Why prolong pain? “Oregon death with dignity Act 2015 data summary,” the most frequently cited reasons for choosing assisted suicide within past year were a “decreasing ability to participate in activities that make life enjoyable,” “a loss of autonomy,” and a “loss of dignity.”You can't lie a very autonomous/ dignified lifestyle if you are so sick and unhealthy that you cannot do anything you enjoy or even do basic things for yourself. Society likes to tell us that we must need to do the things that make us happy but when people can't do these things or be with people that make them happy and the are in pain, they deserve to have the option to end their