2008 Woodie Awards
FLIP SIDE: Medically-assisted suicides should not be person's choice
Issue date: 2/2/06 Section: Opinion
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Part two of a two-part discussion addressing the different aspects of medically- assisted suicides. Concluding with an opposing viewpoint to the previous article in affirmation of assisted suicides.
Euthanasia is murder, and anyone that wants to die because of his or her situation in life is mentally sick.
The passing of this law encourages those with terminal illness to give up hope and die.
Assisted suicide is an abomination to the Hippocratic oath that a doctor swears to practice under.
To take a life for the sake of convenience or sympathy is murder.
Since when has it been OK for a doctor to cause harm to anyone? Their jobs are not to play God, deciding who lives and dies. Their jobs are to help those in need by medicating them back to health.
Medicine and health care have always been about preserving and bettering life.
We have problems getting the Food and Drug Administration to approve drugs that can treat terminally ill people, but all of a sudden we can kill them?
There is no logic that supports the idea of murder by medicine. Taking a life is murder.
If you want a law that will end suffering for the terminally ill, why not pass a law allowing scientists to push the limits of medicine?
Instead, we choose to let Oregon pass a law saying it is OK to put an end to all suffering and life.
Pain management should be about exploring the untouched realm of medical science that other countries are already traveling, not about ending all suffering by way of death.
Terminal illness is a challenge to explore the depths of medicine and technology.
In 2002, my cousin was dying of a terminal illness, and she was in a lot of pain. The last few days of life she drifted in and out of consciousness but kept on living by the strength of her own heartbeat.
She cried out loud sometimes because of her pain. There was no look of defeat in her eyes; she kept on finding a reason to fight for life until physically her body could not recover.
Euthanasia is murder, and anyone that wants to die because of his or her situation in life is mentally sick.
The passing of this law encourages those with terminal illness to give up hope and die.
Assisted suicide is an abomination to the Hippocratic oath that a doctor swears to practice under.
To take a life for the sake of convenience or sympathy is murder.
Since when has it been OK for a doctor to cause harm to anyone? Their jobs are not to play God, deciding who lives and dies. Their jobs are to help those in need by medicating them back to health.
Medicine and health care have always been about preserving and bettering life.
We have problems getting the Food and Drug Administration to approve drugs that can treat terminally ill people, but all of a sudden we can kill them?
There is no logic that supports the idea of murder by medicine. Taking a life is murder.
If you want a law that will end suffering for the terminally ill, why not pass a law allowing scientists to push the limits of medicine?
Instead, we choose to let Oregon pass a law saying it is OK to put an end to all suffering and life.
Pain management should be about exploring the untouched realm of medical science that other countries are already traveling, not about ending all suffering by way of death.
Terminal illness is a challenge to explore the depths of medicine and technology.
In 2002, my cousin was dying of a terminal illness, and she was in a lot of pain. The last few days of life she drifted in and out of consciousness but kept on living by the strength of her own heartbeat.
She cried out loud sometimes because of her pain. There was no look of defeat in her eyes; she kept on finding a reason to fight for life until physically her body could not recover.