ry well talked about doctor who assists in suicide is Dr. Jack Kevorkian. He has pointed out the benefits of assisted suicide. Some of those are that it reduces patient's suffering family and friends of patient. Dr. Kevorkian also asks his own patients to donate vital organs or undergo a critical medical experiment, which helps science, medicine, society, and the lives of others. Dr. Kevorkian made up a way of his suicide apparatus, which he called ‘mercitron’. This was invented in 1989. This is how it worked. There was a salt solution that runs from a needle through the veins. When ready the patient pulls plunger, injection a solution into their veins putting then to sleep in 10 to 15 seconds. One-minute later4 a final lethal solution goes through the needle into their veins. Dr. Kevorkian explained the difference between ‘mercitron’ and euthanasia. "It's like giving someone a loaded gun. The patient pulls the trigger, not the doctor. If the doctor sets up the needle and syringe but lets the patient pull the plunger, that's assisted suicide. If the doctor pushed to plunger, it would be euthanasia." (McCuen 34) Some people say that assisted suicide is like ‘playing God’ but when are we playing God. Is it when we pull the plug or really when we plug it in? What about birth control or blood transfusions or heart surgery. An example I found was about a lady named Nancy Cruzan. She was a 32 year-old Missouri woman that was in a vegetative state for seven years after an auto accident. Her family fought all the way up to the Supreme Court to get her off artificial nutrition and hydration. Finally, it was allowed. When the day came to take the tubes out, nineteen people stormed the facility to try to put the tubes back in. They were arrested and placed in jail. Now that’s playing God. The sixth Commandment states simply "Thou shalt not kill." However, there are 62 verses in the Bible calling for killin...
