Essays on Assisted Suicide Page 2

If you find yourself in a situation where you have recently learned that your life will end within the next three months, take a moment to reflect. Recently, there has been a shift in perspective from pondering “What should I do for the remainder of my life?” to contemplating “When is it suitable to terminate…

Physician-assisted suicide (PAS), like euthanasia, results to the untimely death of a patient and should therefore be deemed illegal. A physician-assisted suicide could be distinguished from euthanasia by looking at the final act which causes death. In the case of euthanasia, the patient dies because of what the physician directly does, like injecting the patient…