Doctor Assisted Suicide

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states have decided to not allow physician assisted suicide. For example, people like Dr. Kevorkian has been under much scrutiny for assisting in deaths. I don’t necessarily agree with his bedside manor and his “icy okey-doke” (Goodman, 495) But when somebody decides to take his own life, it is up to the individual to do so.
Another problem is the moral issue. Is assisted suicide moral or immoral? If a person is terminally ill and is going to die from the illness, then the only thing to do is to take his or her own life to end suffering. Take for example, if somebody has Alzheimer’s disease, or Parkinson’s disease, that person will eventually lose the mental and physical capacity to function as what society thinks is a human being. They will suffer for a long period of time until they die. In this case, assisted suicide is not immoral. But euthanasia means “good death.” It is not murder, because the person is allowing the physician to go ahead with the procedure. All the physician ...

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