Physician Assisted Suicide

When questioning our own morality humans tend refuse to confront that question. America’s attitude towards politics is an obvious example of this. The conversations of Immigration, Abortion, and/or Animal Testing are all topics that question our morals. If these topics are brought up in everyday conversation they are often treated with annoyance and repudiation. One question that is not often brought up to annoy is the topic of assisted suicide. The topic of assisted suicide is a topic that needs to be confronted in today’s society.
Physician Assisted Death is an extraordinary issue that is difficult to talk about. I, myself found it difficult to research for this paper for two reasons. The first being that I’ve affected by suicide and numerous …show more content…
Frankie depicted as a carefree hippie who almost does nothing but showcase her open-mindedness while Grace is depicted as an uptight conservative who prides herself on her morals. It showed how both were struggling in their assistance and in their absence from the situation. Frankie was struggling with assisting babe because it was testing her already loose morals, while Grace was struggling because of her value for human life instilled on her. Many people can relate with Grace's because they share a basic value for human life. But when did this value become instilled upon us? Before the spread of Christianity the value of human life was a little different than our values. Civilizations before Christianity often believed that we should care for our own versus Christians who believe that human life is a trust from God. The Hippocratic school reinforced this belief. During the twelfth through fifteenth centuries, it culminated in the near unanimity of medical opinion in opposing …show more content…
Jewish and Christian thinkers have opposed suicide as inconsistent with the human good with responsibilities to God. When the 13th Century came around Thomas Aquinas set the paramount belief that suicide is unacceptable in the eyes of God. (Left: Saint Thomas Aquinas, an Italian Dominican friar, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church.) Aquinas condemn suicide as wrong because it violates God’s authority over life, which is God's gift. During the 17th common law prohibits suicide in the American Colonies. This includes assisting suicide. The legislators of Rhode Island, declared, in 1647, that “[s]elf murder is by all agreed to be the most unnatural, and it is by this present Assembly declared, to be that, wherein he that doth it, kills himself out of a premeditated hatred against his own life or other humor...his goods and chattels are the king's custom.” Transitioning into the Renaissance and Reformation period, writers challenged the church. Michael Manning, MD said in Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide: Killing or