Palliative Care represents an approach that aims at improving the quality of life of patients and their families experiencing the problem in association with life-threatening illness. This is through prevention and relief of the suffering process by means of early identification of the illness and impeccable assessment and eventual treatment of pain and other related problems. Palliative care offers crucial development to patients by affirming life and regarding death as a normal process. The medical process also performs the vital role in relieving the patients from the pain and other distressing symptoms. Palliative care practices neither hasten nor postpone death. This is through offering significant support system to patients in the process of pain until death. Palliative care also enables the health personnel to address the issues of the patients and their families in relation to the suffering. In the contemporary world, several arguments are in place to understand the effectiveness of the palliative care in enhancing the support systems for the consumers. Some argue against the physician-assisted suicide while other experts support the notion with the aim of improving the quality of life. Physician-assisted suicide refers to the context in which the physician facilitates the death of a patient through the provision of vital information to enable the victim to execute the life-ending act. With several significant arguments in favor of palliative care, it is appropriate to note, excellent palliative care is preferable to physician- assisted suicide."
Reasons Against Physician-assisted Suicide
Palliative care entails provision of health care activities to patients knowing that the condition of the victims is incurable while physician-assisted suicide is the enabling of the execution of the end-life act by the patient whose condition is incurable. Suicide is a wrong act within the society hence should not prevail in the context of medicine[footnoteRef:2]. Physician-assisted suicide enables the patient to terminate his suffering because of the incurable illness. This occurs after consultation between the relatives and the physician. Physician-assisted suicide sums up to murder that is a vice in the society. Even the Christian's Holy Book (The Bible) condemns murder or suicide. This argument draws from the notion that murder is illegal in The Bible and relevant constitutional acts. For instance, it one of the Ten Commandments by Moses to the Israelites indicates, "Thou shall not kill." This makes it illegal to commit suicide or participate in the execution of the life-ending act from the biblical perspective. It is also under clear illustration from the constitutions that citizens have the right to life. This makes it a criminal offence to kill or participate in the killing of any citizen under the protection of the constitution. Since murder (physician-assisted suicide) is illegal in relation to biblical and secular perspective, it is unethical to practice the act in the profession of medicine. It is necessary to allow the patients; no matter their condition to enjoy, the life rights hence should not execute life-ending actions. This makes it vital to practice excellent palliative care in preference to physician-assisted suicide in attempts to improve the quality of lives of patients. [2: Dyck, Arthur. Life's Worth: The Case against Assisted Suicide. Eerdmans, 2002.]
Physician-assisted suicide is incompatible with the healing goals of the profession of medicine[footnoteRef:3]. Medicine refers to the art and science of healing. Medicine is scientific in nature because of the adoption of knowledge through critical study and experiments. Medicine is also an art because of the skillful acts by doctors and other medical practitioners in handling the patients. Medicine aims to achieve three vital goals: save lives, relieve suffering, and enhance the dignity of all the patients regardless of the conditions of the illness. This indicates that excellent palliative care promotes the goals of the medicine profession while physician-assisted suicide is contrary to the expectation of the profession. Palliative care improves the quality of life of the patient thus enables the profession of medicine to promote dignity of the victim. Individuals who commit suicide usually come out as cowards within the context...
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