Assisted suicide
In a nutshell, it works like this: the patient verbally requests legal medical assistance in death from a qualified doctor. That doctor must assess and confirm the patient's suitability. Assisted suicide is a condition in which the patient is the one who carries out the act that ends his life by taking a lethal drug, but for the first time many doctors, regardless of their specialty, are forced to think about what The standard of care will consist of. from informing patients about “assisted suicide” or physician-assisted death. This essay focuses on one point: the concept of 'autonomy'. Although various definitions of voluntary, involuntary and non-voluntary euthanasia exist, the case for assisted suicide is a powerful argument that appeals to our capacity for compassion and our obligation to support individual choice and self-determination; Throughout the article, “medically assisted dying” will refer to the act as practiced in the legal context of the United States, in which all eligible patients have some form of assisted suicide. Unlike euthanasia, assisted suicide consists of actively assisting someone who wants to end his or her life. her own life, and cannot do this herself Sartori, 2018. Currently, assisted suicide, in any form, is legal in four European countries, Canada, and some states of America and Australia. However, according to the international convention, assisted suicide exists in three different forms: euthanasia E, physician-assisted suicide PAS and assisted suicide AS. Physician-assisted suicide PAS, also known as AID in physician-assisted death, is one of the most controversial ethical issues facing medicine today. The American Medical Association AMA states that “physician-assisted suicide occurs when a physician facilitates the death of a patient by providing necessary resources and/or,