Physician Assisted Suicide Persuasive Essay

Imagine laying in bed, unable to do anything for yourself; your quality of life is slowly diminishing to nothing. Now, imagine having the worst pain imaginable. This is what life is like when having a life threatening disease, like terminal cancer. Terminally ill patients have the most unbearable pain, yet have to die suffering. What if there was an option to end one's life with dignity, to be able to still make a choice while you could? This option is called physician-assisted suicide, and people should have the right to make this type of very difficult decision if ever needed to. It goes against the Hippocratic Oath a physician takes (www.pbs.org); but, this oath is not required for modern medicine schools. As long as a person is of sane …show more content…
Could you imagine what it must feel like to be in constant pain, knowing one's life would end? What a terrible way to die. This option gives people a peaceful death, despite what some researchers say. Some researchers say this is indeed not a peaceful way to die, and dying can include gasping, muscle spasms, nausea, vomiting, panic, confusion, failure to produce unconsciousness, waking from unconsciousness, and the actual inability to die (www.njrtl.org). However, patientd know the risk they are taking and are determined to die with …show more content…
It helps with pain management, but when one is diagnosed with terminal cancer, the quality of life is gone. That is no way to live, laying in bed in pain, or having visitors come and mourn you before you're even gone. Speaking from personal experience, I have seen patients suffer tremendously on pallative care. Yes, the nurses and doctors try their best to keep a patient comfortable. But being kept comfortable can only do so much. I have seen first hand patients begging to die, struggling to take their last breath. If they were given the option of physician-assisted suicide, most would probably jump at the