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This is an 8 page paper discussing the medical and legal issues involved with a patient’s “right to die”. The “right to die” for a patient has long been considered an ethical issue and was not considered feasible until modern medicine and laws allowed for the possibility of patients to consider physician assisted suicide. Supporters of physician assisted suicide believe that patients have the right to make their own informed decisions about their medical treatment which may include physician assisted suicide if they are suffering and have a terminal illness. Opponents believe that to legally allow for physician assisted suicide begins the path down a slippery slope and in cases where comatose patients are considered does not protect the most vulnerable members of society when family members and physicians decide their fate where other factors not for the sake of the patient, such as financial concerns, are weighed against what is considered an acceptable level of life. Physician assisted suicide does exist however and in all cases, several issues must be addressed to respect the patient’s medical options, informed decision making, psychological well being, and in some cases the right to chose death over circumstance which should not be denied by the courts.
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physician assisted suicide. Supporters of physician assisted suicide believe that patients have the right to make their own informed decisions about their medical treatment which may include physician assisted suicide
if they are suffering and have a terminal illness. Opponents believe that to legally allow for physician assisted suicide begins the path down a slippery slope and in cases where
comatose patients are considered does not protect the most vulnerable members of society when family members and physicians decide their fate where other factors not for the sake of the
patient, such as financial concerns, are weighed against what is considered an acceptable level of life. Physician assisted suicide does exist however and in all cases, several issues must be
addressed to respect the patients medical options, informed decision making, psychological well being, and in some cases the right to chose death over circumstance which should not be denied by
the courts. In November of 1997, Oregon became the first state to legalize physician assisted suicide (PAS) with its Oregon Death with Dignity
Act which was furthered by a task force of health care professionals from the Center for Ethics of the Oregon Health Sciences University to issue a guidebook for health care
providers and also provide a well-balanced outline about the issues involved in a patients "right to die" (Hendin, Foley and White, 1998).
In the case of the laws passed in Oregon which were based on similar laws which exist in the Netherlands where assisted suicide has been practiced legally for several decades,
there are several issues and conditions which must be met legally, medically and ethically before any consideration is taken in regards to physician assisted suicide. One conceptual difference exists between
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