Assisted Suicide

[Jazzy]

Assisted suicide is the process by which an individual, who may otherwise be incapable, is provided with the means (drugs or equipment) to commit suicide for people who are terminally ill and in intractable pain to obtain a lethal prescription from their physician and end their chronic suffering.



Is assisted suicide right or wrong?

 

[Raven]

Right. If a person is terminally ill and wishes to go to these clinics I don't see why it is wrong.

 

[Evil Eye]

In a way it's right, if these people are really unhappy etc and are going to commit suicide anyway you might as well help them getting it done in a somewhat humane way.

Saves people the trauma of hitting them with a car or train or something or having to scrape them off the street after jumping.

But, you shouldn't force doctors to help these people or they might feel bad about it...

 

[Raven]

Most doctors would just say no. The only doctors that agree with it are those ones at the clinics.