Category: Assisted Suicide

Introduction Australia is revealed to be ranked 41 in terms of suicide1,320,000 people in total having committed suicide and with approximately 3,287 dying annuallyout of 183 countries (Suicide Rate by Country 2020, August 2019). One method that has recently been observed and could potentially end ones suffering and the rate of suicide is assisted dying,…

Introduction My paper is about a Christian Ethical Theory in regarding assisted suicide. I first encountered the topic of assisted suicide and euthanasia during this course of Ethics 101. I have been affected by the way in which arguments presented against and for the case in legalizing different kinds of forms of assisted suicide. In…

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…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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…

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…

Physician assisted suicide should be legalized to help patients with constant suffering of pain from illnesses and age. Many patients tolerate the pain while being bedridden unable to move, States in the United States of America should lift the ban on Physician assisted suicide to give an option of passing peacefully with dignity and grace…

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…