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English III
May 23, 2014
Something Clever

According to study author Dr. Elizabeth Trice Loggers, medical director

of palliative care at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. "Most Americans say
that they want to die at home with family members around, not in pain and
with their mental faculties as in tact as possible. But, not everyone is
achieving that kind of good death. For the rare number of people using the
Death With Dignity program, we are reassured by the high numbers of
people who use palliative or hospice care and who talk with their families
about this decision," Assisted suicide should be legal because it is
affordable, it is a burden keeping a terminally ill person alive, also it
eases the pain and there is no more suffering, and gives the
individual as well as the family peace of mind.
Assisted suicide is when an individual decides that he or she no longer desires to partake
in life anymore and sees death as their only option. Normally assisted suicide is for terminally ill
patients who are literally at the end of their rope and they know without a doubt in their mind
that the end is near. Assisted suicide is a fast and painless experience where the doctor simply
assists a needle into your arm and the patient does the rest. The whole process is independent.

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Assisted suicide is reasonably affordable. Doctors charge such high rates on terminally ill
individuals. High rates and expensive taxes just to prolong the inevitable causes trouble within
the balance of a healthy family. Last year Medicare paid $55 billion just for doctor and hospital
bills during the last two months of patients lives. As a lack of financial standings are concerned
families often go into dept over the cost of bills just for a terminally ill patient. That is not
including the daily financial problems normal people deal with on a day to day basis. Take a
modern day family mother and father 2 children and a pet even. Now say the father gets hurt at
work and hypothetically speaking his situation becomes terminal how can the government expect
the family to keep up with their children pay high rates for their home as well as their bills and
also maintain hospitalization for a terminally ill patient? If the inevitable is death then why not
allow the patient to go through with the assisted suicide. $40,000 for a 93-year old man with
terminal cancer to get a surgically implanted defibrillator if he happens to have heart problems
too the cost of a life that is clear as day to be sonly ended is ridiculous, taxes, bills, stress it is all
just unneeded For those who suffer at the end of their lives have been to long denied the right to
an easeful death. (Economist 18) it is a humane way to end pain and suffering for someone who
is terminally ill the main point and the main focus is family bearings.
What happens to the families that cannot afford to maintain their loved ones in a well
facilitated location like a hospital or medical location, what happens to those families? If assisted
suicide is considered a crime then the government should be behind its own bars. A doctor is
instructed to give the least amount of aid to a non paying victim simply from lack of currency no
money always results in no service. The American dream so they call it.

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If a family as well as the patient agrees upon assisted suicide as the final resort the by all means
it should be granted. Sky rocketing prices for aid to a dying man as opposed to allowing one
single payment for assisted suicide just does not add up. Another point that is well made is the
personal pain that the family as well as the patient goes through is just heart wrenching knowing
a loved one is connected to a tube holding on for dear life while the bank account balance
steadily falls to zero. As the patient sits there in anguish and pain pumped with the chemicals that
causes minimum life into his/her own body.
After the process of assisted suicide the patient is relieved of all of his/her pain no more
suffering is necessary and no more long stressful nights lying awake wishing to just let go.
After three operations for lung cancer a 62 year old woman could hardly breathe and
suffered suffocating chest pain although hospice care helped with her symptoms she was ready to
die. She contacted the hemlock society which provides information and support for a peaceful
death through the caring friends program a trained volunteer worked with her and her husband to
ensure that she had exhausted all the alternatives that she knew the right way to end her life and
that a medical professional was in attendance when she died. The woman found a compassionate
physician who risking his license and liberty supplied her with the right amount of lethal
medication she died peacefully in the company of her husband, best friend and a caring friend
(chawkins 3).
Once the poison is in your system the death occurs quickly and there is no more stress
because you are pronounced dead. the law covering euthanasia of minors is different to the
broader euthanasia law. Adults can opt for death by injection if they find their condition
intolerable and pain too great cases have included deaf twin brothers on the verge of being blind

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(bartenek 3) And you are relieved from your worries no more of a burden of cash no more
running around driving yourself crazy and no more pain so what would you suggest? it is to be
hoped that the current wave of liberalization will continue for those who suffer at the end of their
lives have been to long denied the right to an easeful death (economist 18)
Many people are curious on the way that assisted suicide works. The first patient to use
a lethal prescription that Dr. Nicholas Gideonse was a man suffering from prostate cancer. He
was grumpy and cantankerous. His legs were swollen. He was immobile and miserable Gideonse
said once he had the medication in hand he lit up the man late gathered his family and loved
ones and took the medication just the knowledge that he had regained his autonomy elevated his
mood the doctor said Gideonse a family practitioner in Oregon said he was written two to three
dozen prescription for terminally ill patients who were seeking to hasten their deaths (Ostrom
Carol M. initiative paragraph 3)
There are many cases where people have chosen assisted suicide over dealing with the
uncontrollable pain that they must endure for their bare survival. Many medical checks and a
large amount of stress that comes with it all I dont want to suffer needlessly at the end, she told
Nash during the trial
Family stress is a large weight on the subject of assisted suicide families sitting at home
worrying if their loved one will even make it through the night children on their knees praying
for an answer as well as the patient enduring it all. Imagine it is your birthday and you are
connected to a tube because you cannot even breathe on your own or you just wish to go home
because you know with your situation you dont have much time remaining on this planet.
Assisted suicide is frowned upon from religious views and said to be disgraceful but what

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pleasure and grace is given to the man/woman that cries every night, bleeds for no apparent
reason, connected to a tube and cannot even do the bare minimum that we as human beings were
created to do. As well as the pain that comes along with the surgeries and medical expenses?
Another visual say your mother is in the hospital and she has been there for
approximately 8 years. She was diagnosed with terminal cancer and said to only have a few
months to live give or take. She tells you over and over again how this life just is not for her
anymore and she is ready to be at peace also the prices of surgeries and medicine happens to be
sky rocketing and you cannot maintain. What would you do? This is the hard decision forced to
be made by a small family in Wyoming. The reasonable answer is obvious but in the end the
choice is yours.
Knowing your loved one is in a better place is a huge relief. There is no more worrying if
their being harmed or if their being abused by doctors who could not care less about them.
Without assisted suicide the families could not be at peace with themselves as well as their loved
ones situation. Patients choose this way to be released from their pain.
Many families who deal with assisted suicide see it as a blessing rather than a curse. It
comes as a relief and serving aid to a dying patient is quite redundant and unnecessary with
people who choose assisted suicide they clearly and normally have weighed all other options and
are content with the end.
Families often stress seeing their loved ones hospitalized day in and out. With the lack of
support given to a poor family no one can truly be sure that the patient is getting the attention
that he/she deserves to do be given.

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The current graph shown above highlights three main points. Quality of life,
desire for control as well as the burden placed upon families in which bring the
conclusion that assisted suicide should be accepted. The quality of life controls exactly
50 percent of the chart above. In most cases the patients have a minimum amount of time
remaining and their life line is running very thin. The burden of keeping a dying victim
alive controls 29 percent of the chart this burden is a result of not being sure where the
next financial bill will be paid.

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Works Cited
Bartunek, Robert-Jan. "Belgium Extends "Right-to-Die" to Terminally Ill Children." Reuters
Media. 2014 feb 13. Web. 17 Mar. 2014.
Bryan, Susan Montoya. "NM Ruling Will Allow Doctors to Help Patients Die." Santa Fe New
Mexican 2014 jan 14: N.p. Web. 17 Mar. 2014. <http://sks.sirs.com>.
Chawkins, Steve. "Going Easier on Elderly Assisted Suicide." Los Angeles Times 2013 jan
21: P. AA.1. Web. 17 Mar. 2014. <http://sks.sirs.com>. this is my primary source
because it was dealt with first hand.
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"Easing Death." Economist 2012 oct 20: P. 18. Web. 17 Mar. 2014. <http://sks.sirs.com>.
Ostrom, Carol M. "Initiative 1000 Would Let Patients Get Help Ending Their Lives." The Seattle
Times (Seattle, WA) sept. 21, 2008: N.p. Web. 20 Mar. 2014. <http://sks.sirs.com>.