Physician-Assisted Suicide or Physician-Assisted dying has a lot of controversies. What’s Physician-Assisted Suicide, is a practice where a patient …show more content…
A patient should have the liberty of choosing to end their suffering. Although, it may see has an extreme option, is an option the patient should have the right. However, some doctor think that Physician-Assisted Suicide goes against the oath they made. According to the article” Doctor-Assisted Suicide Pros and Cons List”, one of the con of this practice is “Violates the Hippocratic Oath”. Which was that every life is sacred, therefore, commanding respect. So, just because the patients give permission, doesn’t make killing right. Still, by respecting the patient’s wishes and taking him/her out of his/her misery, the doctor is respecting their life. Physician-Assisted Suicide helps the patients in many different ways like being prepare or ending their suffering. Physician-assisted Suicide helps them retain their dignity. Terminally ill, coma, or mentally competent patients are suffering every day. For some, the pain is so much, that they don’t consider themselves “living”. Physician-assisted suicide help patients properly said goodbye to their love ones at their own pace and at their own comfort. It gives them the opportunity to be surrounded by the people they love and the things they love. An article called “Doctor-Assisted Suicide Pros and Cons List” by Nyln.org, it stated that “Physician-Assisted Suicide makes grief easier to handle” (Nyln). Since, everyone its inform of the patient’s …show more content…
When my grandmother had cancer spread all over her body, she was suffering so much that, it wasn’t living. But, it was even harder to find out that the day you left the hospital to go home, was the day she died. Unfortunately, Physician-Assisted suicide isn’t legal in Florida, which was were my grandmother die and even though my family and her want her to rest in peace its wasn’t an option that we had.
Physician-Assisted Suicide is the practice where a doctor helps a terminally ill patient end their suffering, by taking a lethal dose. Not only that, but it helps both the family and the patients say their goodbyes. This helps the patients go on his own will and rest in peace. Although, Physicians-Assisted Suicide or Physician-Assisted Dying has its pros and cons; it is a solution that should be consider for a person who’s terminally ill. It’s not easy to lose a love one, it’s even harder to watch them suffer and not knowing when will be the last goodbye, will Physician-Assisted Suicide make it