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Physician Assisted Suicide is a topic that has always interested me and is
something that I have always thought about doing more research on.
According to Barness, Regnier, Hook, and Mueller, there are a very small
number of secular US medical professional societies that hold statements on
physician assisted suicide (Barness, et al, 2020). This lack of statement on
the matter can be likely attributed to the controversial nature of physician
assisted suicide, and the fact that overtly supporting the matter can often
lead to negative societal outcomes. Often times, the statements regarding
physician assisted suicide oppose the act because the nature of assisting
suicide contradicts the overall purpose of a physician in the first place
(Barsness, et al., 2020). Physician assisted suicide has been a topic of
controversy for quite some time now, however, physician assisted suicide
matters now because the conversation about choosing when to die is
prevalent in society. In an article by Lee, Price, Rayner, and Hotopf they
stated that often times, there is belief that the approval of physician assisted
suicide can be linked to a lack of religious identity in individuals (Lee, et al.,
2009). However, religion may not have anything to do with physician
assisted suicide, and more to do with the fact that individuals feel they
deserve free will. In the past as well as the present, it seems there is a divide
over the concept of physician assisted suicide, and whether or not it is
ethical. One of the big areas of conflict or disagreement among the opinions
is that physician assisted suicide is that is creates errors in judgement or
morality within physicians and that physicians are actually supposed to heal
people and care for people not kill them (Barsness, et al., 2020). Physician
assisted suicide has a lot of statements of neutrality from doctors that have
been surveyed on their stance, and this is likely attributed to the fact that
they don’t appose it but outward support would create backlash.
Possible questions:
1.
Is physician assisted suicide ethical in practice?
2.
Do individuals have the right to die or the right to physician assisted
suicide under certain terminal circumstances?
3.
Would physician assisted suicide legalization create different
relationships between doctors and patients?
Sources:
Lee, W., Price, A., Rayner, L., & Hotopf, M. (2009). Survey of doctors' opinions
of the legalisation of physician assisted suicide.
BMC Medical Ethics
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10
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2.
https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A198432694/OVIC?
u=ivytech7&sid=bookmark-OVIC&xid=b3d73bee
Links to an external site.
Barsness, J. G., Regnier, C. R., Hook, C. C., & Mueller, P. S. (2020). US medical
and surgical society position statements on physician-assisted suicide and
euthanasia: a review.
BMC Medical
Ethics
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21
(1).
https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A642290270/OVIC?
u=ivytech7&sid=bookmark-OVIC&xid=e284ffae
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