Whitney's Perfect Prospectus!

If you were in a situation where the determination of your fate was out of your hands, does another person have the right to decide your fate? Likewise, if you were in a hospital in a vegetative state or something similar, does your physician have the right to pull your plug? Physician-assisted suicide is an extremely controversial issue concerning moral and ethical values today. The question of whether or not to make it legal is an extremely sensitive issue with state and national lawmakers. I want to prove that physician-assisted suicide should be made legal. I’m going to express how much more challenging it is to keep a person alive who probably will never return to a conscious state. I will identify some real situations of physician-assisted suicide and point out the harmful effects that fall on hospitals, families, and the health care system who harbor these patients. However, I will also comment on the opposing views because they are such an extremely vital part to the entire controversy. I will also write about people’s actual ethical and moral views towards physician-assisted suicide and make decisions based on these opinions that strengthen the idea that the treatment should be allowed.