Persuasive Essay On Assisted Suicide

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Who Should Have The Authority To Decide on Important Health Care? It’s Halloween night and you’re driving home a little tipsy from a party that you went to. Thirty minutes in driving you started feeling sleepy and tired and you end up falling asleep at the steering wheel of your car. Because of falling asleep while driving you end up getting into a very serious accident that resulted in two totaled cars, few people who are mildly injured and yourself who’s in a coma and critical condition. You are taken to the hospital to be treated for many months until you wake up from you coma. Many months past by and you are considered to be terminally ill and there’s nothing they can do. Since many months have past by and the only solution to this is assisted suicide so …show more content…
As a Utilitarian you can only see one negative outcome of assisted suicide but after you look past that you will see there are more beneficial outcomes and factors that outweigh the factors that affect the people negatively. For example, plugging a plug on someone who is terminally ill may seem unethical because you are ending someone’s life and affecting the people who are connected to that person. On the bright side you are ending someone’s life who been through a lot because of life support is the only thing that’s making him or her live. Even though the death of the terminally ill patient will affect those who are connected emotionally but in the long run they will get better and that will come to their senses that it was the best choice. Compare to keeping the terminally ill patient alive can result in paying a huge amount of money to keep the life support machine running, and an emotional battle believing if the patient can get better or not. In result assisted suicide is ethical and he will choose the doctor to have the authority to make decision than the family member or someone