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Physician assisted suicide (PAS) is a very important issue. ...
Physician Assisted Suicide. Is Physician-Assisted Suicide A Solution ?
Physician assisted suicide (PAS) is a very important issue. ...
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Physician Assisted Suicide
Physician assisted suicide is an issue that has been debated over for many years. Many argue that people have the right to die by any means possible while others argue that human life should be held in high regard and protected at all costs. While active euthanasia is forbidden, currently in the United States courts and physicians in cases of the terminally ill and those who are in a chronic vegetative state generally accept passive euthanasia. By definition passive euthanasia is “the withholding or withdrawing of life support in certain types of cases and allowing a deadly process to proceed without intervention,”1 but this is where the controversy begins. Many people do not agree with any form of physician-assisted suicide and go so far as taking their arguments to the Supreme Court. In recent Supreme Court ruling, physician-assisted suicide has stirred up much controversy. This is not the first instance in which the courts have had to deal with end of life cases. There has been a back-and-forth struggle for many years. In 1990, the Supreme Court ruled that the terminally ill had the right to refuse treatment that may otherwise keep them alive, while in 1997 a ruling stated that people have no constitutional right to die.2 Now, the associated press released an article that declared the Supreme Court’s agreement with the Oregon assisted-suicide law. The law states that it is sanctioned to use federally regulated drugs to assist in the process of physician-assisted suicide.3 Now that it is federal law this basically means that the Bush administration cannot stop doctors from helping terminally ill patients kill themselves. The question now is will congress sit aside and let the new federal law block the Bush administration or will they pass a new law that will give power to Bush’s administration to stop physician assisted suicide? This issue is not going to be laid to rest that easy. There are many groups,...
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