Physician Assited Suicide in Oregon

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PHYSICIAN ASSISTED SUICIDE IN OREGON

The issue of physician assisted suicide (PAS ) is one that sparks much debate across the globe . Most nations are still debating whether it should be legal or not . Concerns are however raised not only on its appropriateness or inappropriateness but also on its definition . Some define it as a way of assisting the needy but to some this is murder which should not be tolerated by any chance . Although physician assisted suicide differs from euthanasia in the sense

that the prior is 100 upon the patients request while the latter entails the switching off of prolonged life support whether the patients are willing or unwilling the two create similar issues in the public domain each time they are highlighted . Physician assisted suicide can be defined as the process where medical doctors or professionals offer their patients who are mostly suffering from terminal illnesses , lethal injection with the sole objective of terminating their life upon their request . This focuses on physically assisted suicide (PAS ) in the state of Oregon which is one of the states of the US that has legalized it under the Oregon 's Death with Dignity Act

Religious groups and most moralists reject PAS on the grounds that only God who is the author of life should have the mandate or power to cease it . To most Christians especially the Catholics , it is unethical to conduct or even condone physically assisted suicide . God only offers people the...