Assisted suicide is a very controversial issue with numbers of pros and cons that can affect both national and international codes of ethics. Assisted suicide is emotional and controversial which ranks up there with abortion. The main thing we need to come up with is that is it morally ethical to kill someone even if the person is in pain. And there is way we can answer that without stating all the pros and cons it comes with. Let's start by saying that it goes against religious views and also against medical ethics if it is the doctor or nurse doing the assisted suicide. If the patient is suffering at the end of his life people have the right not to suffer. It should be considered as much of a crime to make someone live who with justification does not wish to continue as it is to take life without consent. Activists often claim that the laws against assisted suicide are government mandated suffering. But this claim would be similar to saying that laws against selling contaminated food are government mandated starvation. Laws against assisted suicide are in place to prevent abuse and to protect people from dishonest doctors and others. They are not, and never have been, intended to make anyone suffer. The legal right to die some people refer to the liberty interest implicated in right to die cases as a liberty interest in committing suicide we described it as the right to die and determining the time and the manner of one's death and hastening ones death for an important reason. The history of the law's treatment of assisted suicide in this country has been and continues to be one of the rejection of nearly all efforts to permit it. Which makes the asserted right to assisted suicide not a interest to the clause. Some people can say that euthanasia (which is the practice of ending a life are to release a someone from uncontrollable pain) is nothing less than cold-blooded killing. That euthanasia cheapens life even more so than abortion. They also say that it is morally and ethically wrong and should be banned in United States. Others say that euthanasia is a merciful mean to and a long-term suffering and has gained a bad reputation from negative media hype surrounding assisted suicides. The arguments we hear in favor of legalizing assisted suicide generally run along these lines. People should have the to control their own lives. Some terminally ill patients are allowed to end their lives by refusing medical treatment and those who don't have that option should be allowed to choose death. Death is a compassionate way to relieve unbearable suffering. Legal or not, assisted suicides occur, and it would be better if they were brought into the open. The arguments in favor of legalizations usually go like this. Taking a life under any circumstances is immoral. Assisted suicide has a great potential for abuse. People without family support or adequate finances, as well as the depressed, could be pressured to choose death. Physicians can be wrong about estimating how much time a patient has left, causing unnecessary deaths. The public will lose its confidence in the medical profession if physician get into the business of helping people kill themselves. We have been divided over the issue of assisted suicide since the birth of Western medicine some 2000 years ago. Opposition to assisted suicide is the majority view within the medical community. After Oregon passed its assisted suicide law, 67 percent of the states physicians said they would refuse to participate in an assisted suicide and even those physicians who have helped patients terminate their lives said they did so reluctantly, according to a survey conducted by the Oregon Health Division. There has been acts and laws that make it illegal for a doctor to prescribe a controlled substance if he or she knows that the patient plans to use it to commit suicide (which is known as the Pain Relief Promotion Act). The acts net effect is to take away a physicians only realistic means of a assisting a suicide. The bill has many supporters including the American Medical Association, which officially opposes physician assisted suicide, and several House members who are physicians. But there are others who oppose the Act due to the reasons of that they believe Congress should not legislate how physicians help their patients cope with serious illnesses. They also fear that the act will make physicians hesitate when prescribing pain medications for non suicidal patients. When it comes to family issues it is very rarely that the family is not spoken to first when it comes down to physician requested suicide since they are the ones who will be effected the most when it comes to assisted suicide are even death. In fact that is one of the arguments when it comes down to advocates of legalizing assisted suicides they tend to view the family relationship among the potential safeguards which assure that a right to suicide assistance is not abused. The family will help to assure that the patient's choice is truly voluntary and that the patient has appropriately sought out the other care options before concluding that death through suicide is the only effective way to avoid further suffering. No matter what happens with assisted suicides becoming legal or illegal, moral or immoral we will always be in a controversial area when it comes down to assisted suicides and will never come up with a way to oppose it are not.

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