Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Assisted Suicide
Physician-assisted suicide has been an issue that's popped up in the news every now and then. In many societies it's outlawed as well. Also, those who seek physician-assisted suicide are usually in great deals of physical pain and headed down a path of inevitable death due to their condition. Is it unethical? Undoubtedly so. But it isn't our choice to decide whether a person wants to live or die either, right? One side can argue that a persons will to live can be crushed by off-the-chart levels of pain and that choosing a painless way to die would be preferable to them. But then that raises the question of how you would measure the pain and once that's figured out at what point it assisted suicide would be a viable option. The other side can argue that it's completely unethical in every way and that euthanasia shouldn't even be an option. So, which is more ethical? Letting someone live in pain for the remainder of their lives or let them kill themselves? In my opinion the first option should be allowed only at the last resort, as well as the second option though having better moral and ethical grounds to stand upon, it seems more like selfishness to avoid emotional distress after the death of the individual.
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I know nurses who have troubles walking past people who beg them to just pull the plug, but there is nothing they can do. Some even quit their job to not deal with it. I am a sympathetic person, so it's a good thing I'm not a nurse or doctor.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion the decision to ends ones life is in the hands of the one who's life would be lost. Myself personally know someone who I think feels this way in that my dads cousin who has been full body paralyzed for over 40 years isn't even able to talk without help from a nurse. I see him just looking depressed everyday of his life and the only reason that I don't think he hasn't died yet is his family(no kids of his own) basically milk the money that was one in a court case($20 million) against a power company who's loose cable caused him to become paralyzed. They basically use him as a means for money and have no jobs of their own. I don't know fully but my opinion stands as stated.
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