The Importance Of Physician Assisted Suicide

There are many reasons, as to why someone would want to end their life before they were supposed to depart. People who suffer excruciating, chronic, or terminally ill disorders usually want to end their life early. This is a drastic decision for someone to make, but if a person if fully aware and competent to take part in either physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia, then they should have the right to take their own life. U.S oncologists who participated in research studies and expressed their attitudes on physician-assisted suicide, only 22.5 percent of the 3299 U.S oncologists supported physician-assisted suicide, “for a terminally ill patient with prostate cancer who had unremitting pain despite optimal pain management” (Emanuel et al,