Category: Assisted Suicide

Imagine receiving the news everyone dreads; your doctor brings you into their office and tells you You have cancer. In the documentary How to Die in Oregon this is exactly what happened to Cody Curtis. This film follows many patients and their families’ lives as they make the decision to end their lives peacefully through…

Euthanasia and assisted dying are two of the most taboo and controversial topics of the modern era that have polarised society. Although more nations across the world, including the Benelux countries, and mostly recently Austria, are changing their laws to accommodate euthanasia and assisted dying, the issue is still hotly debated. ‘Euthanasia’ is derived from…

It is considered a crime to commit suicide in some parts of the world. Ireland has gone through the same-sex marriage referendum and abortion referendum in recent years. I believe Ireland should now concentrate on a referendum specifically focused on assisted suicide. This essay will discuss the Criminal Law (Suicide) Act of 1993 in detail.…

Introduction The goal of this paper is to answer the question, Should Christians support physician assisted suicide (PAS)? In answering these questions we need to systematically evaluate our moral beliefs in order to determine if they are justified and if yes, how so. This requires a discussion about meta-ethics and applied ethics. I will attempt…

Everyone in American should have a choice. That should go for almost everything. People should get to choose how they want to die with certain rules of course. Assisted suicide means the suicide of a patient suffering from an incurable disease, effected by the taking of lethal drugs provided by a doctor for this purpose.…

The debate surrounding voluntary euthanasia is one that brings into question the ethics of choice and the importance of human life not only to the individual, but to the collective. There are those that argue that the patient should be able to choose for themselves if they believe that assisted suicide is the best option.…

November 1, 2014, Brittany Maynard ended her life. In January of that year, she was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. What was first a grade 2 astrocytoma, within four months, turned to a grade 4 astrocytoma (glioblastoma) with a prognosis of six months to live. After many failed treatments Maynard decided to take advantage of…

As society advances, so does its medical practices. We are more technologically and scientifically advanced now than we have ever been before. With these advances, comes the question of how we implement these technologies into our daily lives. Practices that were once considered taboo are now being considered in a different light. One such practice…

Assisted suicide, a hard pill to swallow for most people. Who wants their family members to resort to this option? No one does, it causes pain among family members and is just looked at as ethically incorrect. Many states do not allow this to be an option, and it is hard to get a doctor…

According to the national survey of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia within the United States, public opinion polls show public approval for the legalization of physician-assisted suicide. Physician-Assisted Suicide gives terminally ill, yet legally capable of making decisions, patients the assistance of drugs at lethal doses to end their life. Physician-assisted suicide is controversial with many…