U.S. Healthcare System

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US healthcare is looking into today is the justification of whether euthanasia and Physician-assisted suicide should be permitted in patients suffering from terminal illness This has been a of debate in recent years . I do feel that suicide and physician assisted suicide (PAS ) should not be permitted under the law , as there are chances that the law can be abused , often forcing patients into this option

New Oregon has adopted a Statue that legalized performance of PAS under certain circumstances . It adopted PAS Laws in 1997 . Since then , more than 200 people who were terminally ill have ended their life under the physician 's assistance (Liptak , 2004 . The state however , does not permit euthanasia . PAS is a procedure in which , the patient who is suffering from a terminal illness , is given an option of ending their life . The physician would arrange all the equipment required for ending the patient 's life . However , the pateitn and not the physician perform the last act that would finally result in the death of the patient . For example , a patient suffering from a terminal illness such as cancer would be meeting the end within 6 months . The physician to ensure that the patient is comfortable and does not suffer permits PAS . The patient is informed of the process by which PAS would be performed . He /she is then given a pill containing a drug in overdose , which once consumed would result in death . However , studies have shown that PAS is not always effective in bringing about the death of the patient . Only in one-quarter of the patients , PAS would instantly result in death . The remaining suffer between life and death for the next few days , and end up being killed by the physician by the process of euthanasia . Hence many people consider that having a PAS law would automatically increase the number of illegal euthanasia cases in the US (Marker , 2004 Longmore , 1997

Let us now consider the situation in the Netherlands . Earlier the Dutch has a PAS law and did not permit euthanasia (in which the physician himself would directly perform a procedure to end the life of the patient . However , it was found that in about 20 of the patients who were given overdoses of barbiturates , the drug did not work to end the life even after four hours . In such cases , the physician was forced to inject a lethal dose of a drug in to end...