Karen Powell
Professor Melissa Laudani
Comm 1
1 March 2024
Annotated Works Cited
Thesis: In the case of terminal illness, should patients have the right to medically assisted suicide.
Birnbacher, Dieter. “Doing and Allowing in the Context of Physician-Assisted Suicide.” Erkenntnis 85.3 (2020): 575–588. Web.
This article discusses is there really a difference between assisted suicide and the act of suicide alone. Digging into this gets us into the difference between two kinds of suffering. Those suffering from physical conditions and those suffering from physiological conditions. I mean this article will argue that it could be one in the same. We need more evidence to prove the two acts are fundamentally different from one another.
Nakaya, Andrea C. Terminal Illness: Opposing Viewpoints. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2005. Print.
This article talks about is terminal sedation a form of killing. Its s morally a wrong to and violates so many principals when it comes to hospice care. Some could argue it is the only way to relive a patient suffering whose symptoms cannot be managed by normal care. Hospice was set up to help these types of a patients, but death can be slow. Is it wrong for people to who are terminally ill to out their own way while still lucid?
Jansen, Lynn A, Steven Wall, and Franklin G Miller. “Drawing the Line on Physician-Assisted Death.” Journal of medical ethics 45.3 (2019): 190–197. Web.
This article talks about the ethics for a physician when it comes to assisted suicide. Physicians taken oat when they become doctors to help. Part of their oath states, I shall never intentionally do or administer anything to the overall harm of my patients. So, the argument could be made that assisted suicide for the terminally ill effects that oath. I think there needs to be more research done to see what the ratio is to doctors who agree with assisted suicide vs those who are not.
Quill, Timothy E, Anthony L Back, and Susan D Block. “Responding to Patients Requesting Physician-Assisted Death: Physician Involvement at the Very End of Life.” JAMA: the journal of the American Medical Association 315.3 (2016): 245–246. Web.
In this article it discusses how often assisted suicide is utilized. They say 1 in 6 patients will talk to their families about doing it, but only 1 in 500 use and access it. It discusses that fact that some patients may be coerced into assisted suicide and that they are vulnerable. I am not so sure the numbers reflect that. This article may be a bit old and may need more research to determine how often it is being used.
Foley, Kathleen M., and Herbert. Hendin. The Case against Assisted Suicide for the Right to End-of-Life Care. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Print.
So many articles and it seems to me and even with this one, most people are completely divided on the subject. There is no way to know at what point is assisted suicide ok, I mean who should be making the decision. The person who is sick and going to die or their loved ones. Does it have to be a terminal illness? Alzheimer’s is a terminal disease, butine could argue a patient can live a long time. The issue is they do not know who they are or their family. So, one could argue what is really considered a terminal disease.
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