Should_Physician_Assisted_Suicide_Be_Legal

Should Physician Assisted Suicide Be Legal Physician-Assisted suicide has been a debated legal issue in the United States for over twenty years. This process is defined as when a “qualified medical practitioner, in fulfilling the wishes of the terminally ill patient, gives access to administering a lethal injection, or inhalation of carbon monoxide“ (Henry 113). The mere fact that someone says in an unclear fashion that he or she wants to be killed does not in itself provide the doctor with the right to say that death would benefit that person. Complications such as muscle spasms, vomiting, and extreme gasping occurred in more than 20% of assisted suicides. This form of “mercy killing” should not be legalized because it shows lack of human worth, it is inconsistent with a just legal system, and it is an oxymoron in the medical practice. In legalizing this our country will loose its understanding of the worth of life. The first method, which is the lethal injection requires the patient to be attached to an IV which would be attached to three containers. Each holding a different solution; saline, sedative, and potassium chloride (mixture of muscle relaxant). The first assistant would begin by allowing the saline to flow into suicide, assisted, patient, patients, pain, medical, should, physician, legal, death, control, wouldn’t, worth, treatment, care, human, doctors, dignity, because, system, monoxide, life, killing, ill, carbon, being, way, through, terminally, stress, practice, physicians, physician-assisted, one, lethal, health