Brief Summary Of The Documentary 'Right To Die'
One example of PAS used for the right reason and by choice was in the Vice Documentary “Right to Die”. In the documentary, they followed a Dutch woman, Antoinette Westerink, with an incurable disease. The day before she talked about the process and what she expected. She showed the film makers her preparations that she had made before hand, including setting up some of her funeral planning. The next day was her last. As she is going through the process, the doctor talked her through every step. The doctor stopped to confirm that Antoinette still wanted to go through with the procedure. She told her it is her choice. The video showed the injection of the sedative happening, surrounded by her family she passes away. This part was graphic, but
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They believed that the cost that could be saved were over estimated, “ [W]e do agree that the claims of cost savings distort the debate… less then .1 percent of both the total health care spending in the United States and individual managed-care plan’s budget” (167). They estimated the actual savings to be around 336 million; this is assuming that 2.7 percent of deaths would come from PAS (Emanuel and Battin 170). While this seems like a large sum of money, what the US spends on health care is astounding. Today it is estimated that the United States spends 3.3 trillion dollars on health care for its citizens. This comes out to about $10,348 per person (“National Health Expenditure Data”). While these 300 million dollars seems small, in the entire scheme of the total spending, this money could be spent on valuable research which could result in the discovery to some of todays incurable disease. The argument revolves back around to how much is a human life worth? In their final days, people shouldn’t be forced into euthanasia just to save money for the healthcare system. The additional money coming from people choosing to go through with PAS would benefit the healthcare system overall. People will still argue on the actual impact of the saved
They believed that the cost that could be saved were over estimated, “ [W]e do agree that the claims of cost savings distort the debate… less then .1 percent of both the total health care spending in the United States and individual managed-care plan’s budget” (167). They estimated the actual savings to be around 336 million; this is assuming that 2.7 percent of deaths would come from PAS (Emanuel and Battin 170). While this seems like a large sum of money, what the US spends on health care is astounding. Today it is estimated that the United States spends 3.3 trillion dollars on health care for its citizens. This comes out to about $10,348 per person (“National Health Expenditure Data”). While these 300 million dollars seems small, in the entire scheme of the total spending, this money could be spent on valuable research which could result in the discovery to some of todays incurable disease. The argument revolves back around to how much is a human life worth? In their final days, people shouldn’t be forced into euthanasia just to save money for the healthcare system. The additional money coming from people choosing to go through with PAS would benefit the healthcare system overall. People will still argue on the actual impact of the saved