The Legalization Of Assisted Suicide
Charles Davis
Persuasive Argument
March 16, 2005
The Legalization of Assisted Suicide
Oregon, the Netherlands, and Belgium are the only three jurisdictions in the world that permit assisted suicide and/or euthanasia. Oregon became the leader of the United States in assisted suicide, when the Oregon legislation passed the Death with Dignity Act in 1994, permitting "physicians to write prescriptions for a lethal dosage of medication to people with a terminal illness" (Department of Human Services). Oregon's act specifies who is permitted to assist a terminally ill patient in their time of choosing between life and death. But in the event that the United States as a country legalized assisted suicide, who would determine which patients qualified as terminally ill, and who would be permitted to "assist" these "terminally ill" patients? With questions still arising as to how and who on a topic such as assisted suicide, one can only prohibit the action until all aspects have been......
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