Physician assisted suicide
... use of sleep medication was a criterion in a Hemlock Society suicide. The doctor knew she committed suicide yet turned his back on it when the coroner asked him the cause of death. We must access if there is a moral distinction between actively hastening death and passively allowing to die, interpret the Hippocratic tradition in medicine and we must analyze whether physician assisted suicide can be regulated. Many people believe that all killing is wrong and I think this in part due to the fear of the word itself. People hear killing and automatically go into this defensive mode in which their moral code permits them from thinking at the matter analytically and instead they take purely religious and philosophical viewpoints. But the actual truth is that some forms of killing are acceptable, such as a case of self defense. I believe that just like there is an exception to self defense, there should be one for human suffering. We must also look at the Hippocratic oath and determine whether it is an ancient document that cannot keep up with the current medical trends, or a philosophic...