Issues Regarding Assisted Suicide
Issues Regarding Assisted Suicide
In the event that assisted suicide be legalize it would bring devastating consequences to our society. We would be giving doctors the license to kill or making them accomplished of a murder if not giving the role of god to decide who has the right to live. The Supreme Court rendered its decision that the average American has no constitutional rights to physician-assisted suicide, however they indicated that should decide for them weather to implement it or not.
Many families have had to ask themselves that same question when having a decisive situation with a loved one that is terminally ill, brain damaged, or with a birth defect child. My grandfather was terminally ill of esophagus cancer. He was in a state where he could not eat or drink. The doctors said that with a surgery he would be able to swallow but still he would only live a maximum two months after that. It would cost the family their lands and lifetime savings to pay for the hospital expenses and the surgery. Although the pain was unbearable, he decided not to have the surgery, as he would die anyway. The family went against his will and sold every possession they had to give him a peaceful death for cancer, instead of starvation and dehydration. He died in his bed two months later. He left in peace with the love of his family and with god in his heart.
There is no question that nobody wants to be in that situation, but it is a reality that all of us most be prepared for.
Some doctors call it “Mercy killing” and actually convince the patients and their families that they are doing them a favor. Others call themselves “angels of death” and go on the hunt for moribund patients in the hospitals.
"protocols that grant doctors the right to say no to wanted life-extending medical treatment to patients whose lives they consider lacking in sufficient quality to justify the cost of care. In order to alleviate the pain, the suffering and to have a peaceful death, some terminally patient request to their doctors or.
What is most disturbing is that these policies, if enforced, would prevent profoundly brain-damaged and dementia patients from receiving tube-supplied food and water because such care is considered medical treatment. That means futile-care protocols that prohibit doctors from treating the...