Question

Should physician-assisted suicide be permitted (made legal) in the United States? Present a clear argument for or against. In your answer, you must justify your position from a bioethical standpoint (meaning that you must use bioethical principles and explain how they apply). In your answer, you must also explain which bioethical principles are being diminished and which ones are being promoted in your argument.

Answer 1

Euthanasia or assisted suicide—and sometimes both—have been legalized in a small number of countries and states. In all jurisdictions, laws, and safeguards were put in place to prevent abuse and misuse of these practices. Prevention measures have included, among others, explicit consent by the person requesting euthanasia, mandatory reporting of all cases, the administration only by physicians (with the exception of Switzerland), and consultation by a second physician.

Euthanasia or assisted suicide is against the ethical principle of beneficence and nonmaleficence. Even with a patient's consent, the medical practitioner should stick to his ethics. The sanctity of life overrides individual autonomy. The physician is practicing or caring to save a life, not to help to take a life. The autonomy of the patient should be respected even though, should focus more on no harm to the patient and try to do good to the patient maximum till the end.

Most of the countries legally it is banned because anyone can use it in the wrong way. It gives legal protection to murder or kill someone. so euthanasia is illegal in the majority of the countries.This is the fundamental error of all immorality in human relations. To commit euthanasia is to fail to see the intrinsic worth or dignity of the person. The judgement that what has worth, intrinsically, somehow does not have worth, is both logically and morally wrong.