1REVIEW OF CONCEPT Physician assisted suicide is suicide that takes place with the help of another individual who is a physician or a healthcare provider (Emanuel 2017). I think it is important for individuals to reflect on their own life and ask themselves what they want the final years of old age to look like. The advance in medical science has made it possible for every individual to be able to live healthier and longer lives, however there are still many people living in nursing homes only because the doctors have the ability to extend their lives, but not enrich them. I think physician assisted suicide can be a good option for the terminally ill, only when those individuals do not want to live longer in that manner and have made a clear- headed decision. Many people who are against the concept look at assisted suicide as ending the life of a living person when really; it is ending the suffering of a dying person. We then have to deal with the horrifying impact on individuals’ mental health, as death becomes an acceptable response to suffering. I feel that the legalization of assisted suicide will make situations much worse for the uninsured and the disabled. One of the strongest arguments for legalization is that it makes doctors focus more on ensuring that the patients are comfortable when dealing with a terminal disease, because if suicide is an option then the doctors will do what they can to initiate it (de Beaufort and van de Vathorst 2016). However, this would badly stunt the growth of medical progress as trying new methods and medicines will not be as desirable if the outcome has not much chances of changing for an individual.
2REVIEW OF CONCEPT References: de Beaufort,I.D. and van de Vathorst,S., 2016. Dementiaand assisted suicideand euthanasia.Journal of neurology,263(7), pp.1463-1467. Emanuel, E., 2017. Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide: focus on the data.The Medical Journal of Australia,206(8), pp.1-2e1.