Physician Assisted Suicide The Rights of a Terminally Ill Patient
Physician-assisted suicide presents one of the greatest contemporary challenges to the medical profession’s ethical responsibilities. Physician-assisted suicide means to commit suicide by a lethal dosage of sleeping, lethal injection, or carbon monoxide gas. Assisted suicide has been prohibited by the court rulings in every state. Jack Kevorkian was one physician who practiced physician-assisted suicide on many terminally ill patients who asked him for help. ... Terminally ill patients have the right to make their decisions about their medical treatment, which may include physician-assisted suicide. Terminally ill patients suffer with their illness and know that they are going to die.