Argumentative Essay On Doctor Assisted Suicide
Doctor Assisted Suicide
Jose Robles
December 03, 2010
Allison p. 4
It must be horrible having a painful disease or being terminally ill, where unavoidable death will be the final result for the fact that there is not cure for that particular illness. Would assisted suicide be the best solution to end that tremendous suffering, should it be legalized? That's a question that has caused controversy. Assisted suicide is defined as the voluntary termination of one's own life by administration of a lethal substance with the direct or indirect assistance of a physician (MedTerms). Many individuals affirm that such act is against morality because no matter what, it is murder. Also, some people support ideas like the fact that it is contrary …show more content…
For example, Dr. Kevorkian assisted in the suicide of a patient from Colorado with Multiple Sclerosis (MS), named Kari Miller. She "left a note saying she could no longer sit or lie down because of the excruciating pain, and could hardly walk"(Sid Bernstein). Apparently the quality of life of this patient was deteriorating as time was passing by. It must be terrible being unable to do a simple task such as sit down without having an unmanageable pain. Also she mentioned, "the pain I was forced to live with and what the MS had done to me became intolerable, MS had robbed me of all my dignity and my zest for life" (Sid Bernstein). This is the sort of cases where one has to analyze and forget the morally way to think for a moment and decide what should be the best option for the patient whether end or prolong their pain. Similarly, Steve Johnson has inoperable brain cancer, even though he fought with everything he and medical science could muster. Now there is nothing left (McKee). "He did not want to 'roll the dice' of death. He wanted the same odds that dying horses have: The chance to have a dignified, medically assisted death"(McKee).There are cases where maintaining someone alive against their own will could be worse than death because in fact that person has no desire to live anymore and eventually that person will die
Jose Robles
December 03, 2010
Allison p. 4
It must be horrible having a painful disease or being terminally ill, where unavoidable death will be the final result for the fact that there is not cure for that particular illness. Would assisted suicide be the best solution to end that tremendous suffering, should it be legalized? That's a question that has caused controversy. Assisted suicide is defined as the voluntary termination of one's own life by administration of a lethal substance with the direct or indirect assistance of a physician (MedTerms). Many individuals affirm that such act is against morality because no matter what, it is murder. Also, some people support ideas like the fact that it is contrary …show more content…
For example, Dr. Kevorkian assisted in the suicide of a patient from Colorado with Multiple Sclerosis (MS), named Kari Miller. She "left a note saying she could no longer sit or lie down because of the excruciating pain, and could hardly walk"(Sid Bernstein). Apparently the quality of life of this patient was deteriorating as time was passing by. It must be terrible being unable to do a simple task such as sit down without having an unmanageable pain. Also she mentioned, "the pain I was forced to live with and what the MS had done to me became intolerable, MS had robbed me of all my dignity and my zest for life" (Sid Bernstein). This is the sort of cases where one has to analyze and forget the morally way to think for a moment and decide what should be the best option for the patient whether end or prolong their pain. Similarly, Steve Johnson has inoperable brain cancer, even though he fought with everything he and medical science could muster. Now there is nothing left (McKee). "He did not want to 'roll the dice' of death. He wanted the same odds that dying horses have: The chance to have a dignified, medically assisted death"(McKee).There are cases where maintaining someone alive against their own will could be worse than death because in fact that person has no desire to live anymore and eventually that person will die