e quality of life. If the quality of a person’s life is so miserable, it seems that committing suicide would ease the suffering. Nonetheless, a rights ethicist confers that the right to life is greater than any desire to help someone end that life. There are too many rights that can be violated along the way when a person assists someone commit suicide. I believe that there are certain cases when physician assisted suicide can be justified ethically. One example is when the quality of life has deteriorated to the point where a peaceful and painless death would ease the suffering of the individual. The individual must have loss the ability to care for themselves in the most basic ways and be terminally ill within a short time span of death (no more than 3 months). I think that a physician can help speed up the dying process by prescribing medication for the individual to take in a specific dosage, which will progress death for the individual. This preserves the rights of the individual to choose death over their quality of life while maintaining the value of life. In my experience with my father’s death by cancer, I think that towards the end of his illness, medical intervention would have been appropriate had he chosen that option. During the last two months of his life, he had little to no control over most of his bodily functions. His body was extremely thin and weak, having no desire for food and his mentality was wearing as the days took their toll on his physical strength. I think that in cases such as these, the body itself has started to shut down and physician assisted suicide can be a justified option because it hastens the dying process that has already started. The way this can be handled is through strong pain medication, which may hasten death. The patient must be terminally ill and suffering where a doctor may prescribe dosages of pain medication that impair respiration or have other effects that...
