Assisted Suicide Argumentative Essay

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On January 2014, Brittany Maynard married to Dan Diaz, was only 29 years old when she was diagnosed with stage 4 brain cancer and was told she had 6 months to live. Brittany decided to relocate to Oregon from California as she intended to end her own life by physician assisted suicide. Oregon is one of the 3 states in the United States which have specific laws that allow for legal assisted suicide. Oregon allows residents with terminal illnesses to end their own lives with lethal drugs provided by physician and it’s legal since 1994, it is termed as Oregon’s Death with Dignity Law. Brittany Maynard’s decision to end her own life has reignited the right-to-die and assisted suicide debate. After the controversial case of Maynard, California …show more content…
This may change society’s values and making suicide prevention programs irrelevant because people wishing to commit suicide will then be entitled to do so. Sometimes it becomes an economic pressure when patient is dying and the space or bed is needed for another patient. Autonomy, the Right-to-die advocates often argue that euthanasia and physician assisted suicide are "choice issues."
Legal Aspects: Euthanasia is illegal in most countries, although doctors do sometimes carry out euthanasia even where it is illegal. Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg have legalized euthanasia. The laws in the Netherlands and Luxembourg also allow physician assisted suicide. In the United States, the states of Oregon, Washington and Montana legalized physician assisted suicide, but euthanasia remains illegal.
Pro-Choice (In favor of Euthanasia). They believed that people should die in dignity and without pain, and should allow others to help them do so if they cannot manage it on their own (Pereira, 2011). Making people go on living when they don't want to, violates their personal freedom, autonomy and human rights. They say it's immoral to force people to continue living in suffering and