Assisted Suicide Debate

Assisted suicide is a huge topic in the world of debate. The definition of assisted suicide is a physician providing a patient the means to take his or her own life through the means of medicine. This is now legal in five states and more are currently considering passing the law to take one’s own life. Many agree with this law as long as the person that wants to kill themselves has an incurable disease and is not going to have a good quality of life left for them. One of the major reasons that this topic is widely diverse and debated, is that Christians believe that we are not supposed to have the power to play God and take someone’s life, even if it is our own. Kuo says “For people of faith, it’s a bitter assignment. And any policy …show more content…
We don’t want them to suffer. We want to help. But as Pope Francis observes, assisted suicide gives us a “false sense of compassion.” Choosing suicide at any point is the same sin Adam and Eve committed in the garden: the pride of wanting to be God, not simply to serve him. True compassion is surrounding a terminal patient with love, support, and palliative care.” My solution is that all states pass a law to make it legal to medically kill yourself as long as you meet the criteria of someone who is terminally ill. One of the big problems people have with the topic of assisted suicide is that we, as Christians or believers of God, should not be able to play the role of God. Many people agree that the moral ethics of being able to kill one’s self are wrong and we, as human beings, should not be able to make that decision. People of the Christian faith believe that we shall die when God …show more content…
After going through many articles and journals, the main argument that was found is that we should not be allowed to play the role of God. Priest and Physician Mark Miller says “For those who can get it, "good care means living while you are dying -- for some people it's the richest part of their lives, when they know that the important thing is knowing you are loved and still loving." Yet too many physicians, he adds, "slough it off as the realm of the death specialists, while the Church tends to get off on moral issues without necessarily doing the practical stuff that needs doing." It's a "misuse" of the principle of autonomy to say what individuals do with their lives (or deaths) has no effect on others. "At the end of the day, the very concept will change society; there will be pressure -- on the elderly who don't want to be a burden, on the disabled, on anyone who feels they are living a life that others don't think a rational person would consider worth living.". We are not ment to mix church and state but this goes hand and hand with both moral and economical ethics. Another argument made is that the doctor administering the medication would feel guilty that he is allowing it to happen. Whether the doctor wants it to happen or not it is ultimately not his choice. Everything is decided by the patient wanting to kill themselves. Sure their decision is