Introduction . I.Imaging Being Sick For Many Years, Trying

Introduction: I. Imaging being sick for many years, trying every new treatment but nothing works. Your bills are piling up, your family is getting restless and your pain is not subsiding; only increasing rapidly. If you were given the choice to end your life, would you do it? II. Medical advances have increased the length of the average life innumerably, by prolonging death, but this involves challenging medical ethics. Keeping a large number of very ill people alive with these medical technologies, there is also a possibility of suffering; discomfort and diminished quality of life. III. Physician assisted suicide is the intentional ending of a person’s life to relieve their pain and suffering. Those suffering or non-responsive†¦show more content†¦Both have the same end result, just different means to the end, â€Å"in assisted suicide, the person take the death-inducing product; in euthanasia, another individual administers it. Both are self-willed deaths. The former is self-willed and self-inflicted; the latter is self-willed and other-inflicted†. Transition: Although there are two different methods, they both share a vast similarity of commonalities regarding the legality and ethics. It is a very serious matter and the decision to do either should not be made rashly. Regardless of which approach is contemplated, not everyone can request euthanasia or PAS. It is a very selected, well regulated procedure. II. According to Legal and Psychological Consideration in the Development of a Euthanasia Statue for Adults in the United States by Donna M. Maier and Michael J. Newman, there are six cases, deferring in psychological and legal impact, in which adults may request euthanasia: (1) while healthy, a competent person may request euthanasia should certain circumstances occur, and make advance directive to that end; (2) a person who has just become aware that he/she is terminally ill may make an advance directive; (3) a person who is in the middle stages of a terminal illness may make an advance directive; (4) a person in the end stages of a terminal illness may make an advance