Physician Assisted Suicide

All humans will die. Approximately 2,155,000 people from the United States will die in one year.
The patient’s physician, of vital treatment that could prolong the person’s life describes passive euthanasia as the intentional discontinuation of life (Wesley 3). Assisted suicide occurs when a health care worker provides a patient with tools and/or medication that will help the patient kill him or herself, without the direct intervention of the care provider. The drugs that are used that take away the major pain of a dying patient is also likely to kill that patient if it is given in high enough doses (Ward). Active euthanasia takes place when the doctor is responsible for the killing of the patient; many patients who have committed assisted suicide did not receive their prescribed overdoses from their own doctors (Wesley 2). Active euthanasia is illegal in the United States. Only three states have legalized assisted suicide and only Oregon permits physician-assisted suicide. Th...