Physician Assisted Suicide for Terminally Ill Patients: An Argumentative Essay
Received Date: May 28, 2018 / Accepted Date: Jun 14, 2018 / Published Date: Jun 21, 2018
Abstract
Dying process is too often needlessly protracted by these medical technology is consequently marked by incapacitations, intolerable pain, and indignity. Physician assisted suicide defines as knowingly and intentionally providing a person with the knowledge or means or both required to commit suicide, including counseling about lethal doses of drugs, prescribing such lethal doses or supplying the drugs. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to create an argumentative essay to argue the use of physician assisted suicide for terminally ill patients as a last resort to end their suffer and end their life, while taking the legal and ethical points of view of opponents and proponents into consideration.
Keywords: Palliative care; End of life care; Medical Care; Suicide
Citation: Ababneh AMT (2018) Physician Assisted Suicide for Terminally Ill Patients: An Argumentative Essay. J Palliat Care Med 8: 337. Doi: 10.4172/2165-7386.1000337
Copyright: © 2018 Ababneh AMT. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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