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Physical Assisted Suicide (PAS)
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Physician Assisted Suicide (PAS)
Patient’s autonomy is essential and should be respected, but it should be balanced with
society’s ethical morals at the same time. Thus, physician-assisted suicide is an immoral action in
a community that should be avoided at all costs. It involves causing harm to patients, which is
not a healing proposition hence a violation of the physician’s Hippocratic Oath of no harm. They
should not intentionally end the patient's life as their profession's ethical traditions emphasize
care and comfort
(Sulmasy, 2021). The general duties of non-maleficence and beneficence
implicate that physicians should support moral rules such as not to kill, not to offend, not to
deprive others of the goods of life, and not to cause suffering and pain. Ending their patient's life
will require them to breach those general duties and specific prohibitions that govern their
profession, which is viewed as inconsistent with their role as comforters and healers.
The practice is morally wrong as it contradicts with secular traditions and solid religious
faith against taking human life. According to the Christian faith, physician-assisted suicide is
considered a deliberate termination of human life, which is inconsistent with the fifth
commandment of the bible that we should not kill. The act is undesirable as it can lead to the
abuse of others. For example, some people can request physician-assisted suicide for those that
are not ill, such as the mentally disabled, due to the perception that they lack quality of life.
Lastly, the violation of patient trust and physician integrity proves its nature of immorality as a
suffering patient might not be thinking right hence making the wrong decision. The physician
should not assume that ending their life will presumably limit their suffering, which affects the
patient-physician relationship.
According to Kant, when people commits suicide, they can no longer do anything moral
again. He is right because it's the responsibility of human beings to live as long as possible, and
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ending our lives contradicts with this fact. People who commits suicide robs themselves of their
personality rather than rooting out the morality in society
(Altman, 2020). Therefore, the body is
a condition of life, and we cannot dispose of it without disposing of life in which the body is
inseparably attached. Committing suicide is the opposite of humanity hence when people destroy
the aspect of morality in themselves, they root out the existence of morals in society. Thus,
committing suicide is morally wrong, and people should encourage other ways of overcoming
the pain and suffering rather than taking this decisions.
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References
Sulmasy, D. (2021). Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: Theological and Ethical
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https://doi.org/10.1093/cb/cbab015
Altman, M. (2020). Can Suicide Preserve One’s Dignity? Kant and Kantians on the Moral
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