Physician Assisted Suicide Topic 2022

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Physician Assisted Suicide 1
Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Discussion........................................................................................................................................2
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5
References........................................................................................................................................7

Physician Assisted Suicide 2
Introduction
Many of the aspects related to patients and their service are there which creates a topic of debate
and contains the different opinion of people. Physician-assisted suicide is one such topic. As the
name implies Physician, assisted suicide (hereinafter referred to as PAS) is a type of suicide that
patients commit in the assistance of their doctors and other physicians (Shiel, 2019). Here this is
to state that such assistance can be in direct as well as in indirect mode. Such assistance is
granted in those situations where living is more painful than death for the patient. It is a
voluntary way to end a life. Different nations have different laws on this topic, some of them
allow PAS and some of them restrict the same. Nevertheless, for the preparation of this report,
ethics will be considered instead of legal aspects. The aim of the report is to understand and
conclude that whether a patient should only be allowed to do whatever they want as long as it
affects them only. In the presented report, the discussion will be made on the topic of PAS and
its impacts on the patient as well as on other people.
Discussion
In general, PAS is considered for those patients who are either too old or suffering from some
terrible diseases and does not expect to live anymore. PAS also is known as Euthanasia
sometimes but there is a difference between two of these terms. In Euthanasia, a doctor is
allowed to end the life of a patient whereas, in PAS, a doctor gives assistance to the patient to
end his/her life (Worldrtd.net, 2019). Ethical theories are there which decided whether an act is
ethical or not and as per substantive ethics, PAS does not seem to be an ethical action for doctors
and physicians. The medical profession has a role in society, which is to save the lives of people.