Assisted suicide

Argumentative Essay

Assisted suicide

Assisting a suicide is in itself another form of suicide in which a person decides if wants to end his life but cannot do it alone for lack of means to suicide. Normally in assisted suicide, the individual is too sick, even almost paralyzed, so the person has to ask someone's help to achieve the goal. Then, this person is who gives aid drugs or equipment to commit suicide. Thus, assisting a suicide - to maliciously incite a mentally ill person to act on his self-destructive impulses should be understood as a crime or aid in dying to respond to a rational dying person’s request to abbreviate his suffering or the assisting a suicide should be understood as medical practice. Talking about of the assisted suicide always emerge polemic and controversy so that in the society exists persons and institutions that can adopt or justify one of this two antagonistic positions that approve or even promote this action to patients with terminal illnesses with the reason to alleviate the suffering and deliver a death with dignity, or reject and condemn this action that for them is considered immoral and it is seen as a real murder because the man can’t dispose loosely above the life of another man so of indirectly way. Thus , there are positions that attempt to justify this practice as a means to end the suffering of the sick and deliver a death with dignity and the other positions that see the assisted suicide as an abhorrent deed and immoral, as a false solution that, under no circumstances, should be legalized.

Opponents of assisted suicide argue that a terminal patient is an incompetent patient who not is in the position to express their will and fewer still kill him-self. Besides, terminally ill people are vulnerable members of society so some might feel under psychological pressure to ease the burden on their families. However, supporters of assisted suicide argue that the death comes as a patient choice whose knowing their irreversible pathological condition prefer not only renounce useless therapies, but also accelerate the end of their life. Thus, they say that the role of the doctor should be limited to provide the means to kill themselves with the appropriate instructions as the Canadian philosopher Wayne Sumner argues that “when the patient's circumstances are such that suicide is ethically acceptable - as in the case of terminal illness - it is also ethically permissible for the doctor provide the means for the patient to do it”( Dying in Court)

Opponents who are against of assisted suicide argue that society has a moral duty to protect and to preserve all life (Claire Andre and Manuel Velasquez). Thus, allowing to people to assist others in destroying their lives violates a fundamental duty of respect human life. Thus, if assisted suicide is allowed on the basis of mercy or compassion, what will keep us from "assisting in" and perhaps actively urging, the death of anyone whose life we deem worthless or undesirable? .However , Those who support the assisted suicide argues the role of the doctor is provide only an assistance so the death occurs with certainty and without pain, the reason must

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