Handbook for Mortals : Hastening Death : Arguments against physician-assisted suicide

Legislating doctors to support suicide is part of discussion on improving hospice care. It can not be thought of as a quick and easy way to protect patients from inappropriate medical practice. Because doctors and their families do not know how to serve the dead, so many people are suffering from unnecessary suffering. Many people are suffering because the doctor can not provide enough medicine for pain. Some people think that it is unlikely that substantial reforms such as improving pain management will be carried out by having doctors help legitimize suicide. Without these reforms, patients will eventually be unable to live a good life at the time of death. In this case, even if suicide is an option it can not be a real choice.

Many people are worried that suicides supported by doctors will create an atmosphere in which some people are forced to commit suicide. A group of elderly people, extreme poverty, ethnic minorities, and other weak people may encourage earlier deaths rather than "focusing" on their families and health care systems. Again, this is not an actual choice, but it is a social problem, how we care about the elder and the poor, and whether ethnic minorities have access to superior medical care It comes from. In either case, providing a suicide does not solve the fundamental social problem. Even for those with sufficient economic and social resources suicide by doctors can cause anxiety new situations. People with serious diseases and disabilities may feel that they have to keep their choices. In a sense, they may feel that suicide is "expected" by family members and friends. As a society, we will never ask people to prove that their survival is justified, and the possibility of asking them to do so is quite difficult or boring There is a possibility.

Finally, it is difficult to implement the proposed regulatory safety measures. "Terminal disease", "competent" patients, and "voluntary behavior" are very ambiguous categories. Latency and restrictions on available aid can create a tragic situation that relaxes restrictions on public opinion

In a study conducted by the American Medical Association (AMA) in 1997, more than half of Americans have discovered that doctors believe suicide should be legal. But when people told me about alternatives to technical treatment, many of us were concerned, and the availability of pain management and hospice care, their support for suicide by doctors was one fifth . This study seems to indicate that it is unlikely that people will choose suicide when people understand all the options leading to death.

The doctor accelerates death at the request of the patient - a controversial feature is suicide by the doctor - once again becoming a prominent example of this problem. Doctors and nurses long been concerned that patients who gave up treatment to maintain life are committing suicide and that health professionals are helping suicide. These concerns have recently appeared to be important in biomedical ethics, as the legal and ethical aspects have reached an agreement that refusing or revoking virtually rejected treatments never violates the Code of Ethics . This agreement began with the development of the Karen Anne Quinran incident in 1976 and was ultimately formed around the decision of the US Supreme Court, especially the Kruzan case in 1990. The work of many philosophers and lawyers has contributed to the formation of this agreement. The obvious part of consensus is that it is an ethical act that it does not stop or cancel the treatment of effective rejection.

The discussion published by JAMA on physician-assisted death focuses on exploring opportunities for patient motivation and fear and maintaining ongoing care for seriously ill patients. Discussion of doctors' support for death focuses on maintaining the traditional role of physicians in patients. Impact on Medical Team: Assistance to the death of a doctor is expected to cause disputes among the various members of the medical team. Regardless of the decision, the team should center on how to deal with patients and their concerns with this sensitive issue.

Back then, Dr. Foley 's main argument against assisting doctor suicide involved the reasons the patient sought treatment. According to Dr. Foley, most patients who need a doctor to help suicide are due to serious problems, not pain. Existing pain includes patient fears of being burdensome, relying on others, and loss of dignity - clinical challenges that doctors are not trained. Meanwhile, the death of a father who committed suicide at the end of prostate cancer, Dicta Angel's doctor's support for suicide has been strengthened.