Troy Jacobs
4-21-2014

Abstract

When the topic of death arises many people like to avoid the discussion, hence the number of people that don’t preplan their funeral and death plans. Regardless of whether we want to plan or not death is always 100% sure when its time. No human being has lived forever and for humans death is a part of life. Death comes in many different forms, but in the end all of these different forms still lead to only one thing death. Ethically there are two topics that always get everyone talking and is always a hot topic of debate. These two things are the ethical issues between natural death and physician-assisted death. These two forms of death both have supporters that back them and have valid reasons why they support either of the two. Throughout this essay the pros and cons of each will be discussed.

Most humans don’t like the thought of death and tend to not want to discuss it because death is the end of the natural human life. Throughout history death has always been final and the thought of death scares many people. The way that some people die scares many people even more. Two ways that many people die are through natural death and physician-assisted death. These two topics come with a fair share of ethical issues that many people are for and against.
Natural death occurs naturally and by naturally it means that there were no other things that contributed to the death of a person. No physician helped with the process and the human just died from maybe old age or any other complications that take place as humans age. This form of death is the least frowned upon because there is nothing that forced it to happen. Ethically, this is the most accepted form of death as long as the deceased didn’t go through cruel and unusual treatment to get to death. By cruel and unusual death this would include a patient that is kept alive for an