Tuesday, October 13, 2015
More doctors learning how to provide help in assisted suicide-Eleni Loving p1
A new law in California will start in 2016 that will make it legal for for doctors to assist terminally ill patient who want to end their lives. This article is a bout how there are many different resources to help doctors know the options for helping patients end their live and how to do it legally. This is very new for the doctors considering that their normal regiment consists of saving lives. Some of the new programs they have are like an information telephone hot-line, where the patients can get help from doctors in other states where its legal. Physician assisted suicide is still not legal in very many states because there are still many people who are opposed to suicide for any reason. However there is a lot of support building around the country for patients to have more control and decision making power at the end of their lives.
This article was published today by April Dembosky, from NPR's health section of the news. Before reading this article I new that there were suicide hot-lines but only to stop a person from killing themselves. I also think it is very interesting that they are trusting doctors with that type of desicion. I know that they are qualified for giving prescriptions although there is a reason a medical doctor isn't the same thing as a therapist or psychologist with a doctorate. I think that is too much power for one person (no matter how many years they went to college) to have over another person's life.
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/10/13/448373459/california-doctors-get-advice-on-how-to-provide-aid-in-dying
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Heather Hatch 8th period: I personally feel that everyone has a reason to live,but what do you do when it is near the end of your life? I believe that doctors are finally considering that being on medication for the end of your days isn't the only option. I don't think it should be called "assisted suicide" however because I believe that is why it is getting a lot of bad attention. This should be see as a good thing. Isn't is just like putting your dog down because they are in so much pain it would be miserable for them to go on any longer?
ReplyDeleteHeather Hatch 8th period: I personally feel that everyone has a reason to live,but what do you do when it is near the end of your life? I believe that doctors are finally considering that being on medication for the end of your days isn't the only option. I don't think it should be called "assisted suicide" however because I believe that is why it is getting a lot of bad attention. This should be see as a good thing. Isn't is just like putting your dog down because they are in so much pain it would be miserable for them to go on any longer?
ReplyDeleteI don't know I believe that we should just go through it because its all pat of life. Ending your life is crazy because what if you actually get cured but its to late because you been taking medical to kill yourself. Desiree smith period 4
ReplyDeleteI am glad that doctors are trying to help, but I believe that every person has a right to their own decision and what they want to do with their lives. Whether that be to go to medical school, travel around the world, or in this case, end it completely. I think that a person should only go to the doctor if they truly want to go to the doctor and receive treatment, but if they don't, nobody should be forced to do anything, in this case, that they don't want to.
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