Assisted Suicide
...Assisted suicide is unnecessary. The urge to legalize suicide stems from the examples of long, and painful deaths the terminally can suffer. However, those conditions can usually be treated with other, legal alternatives. Although some may benefit from the legalization of assisted suicide, the percentage is so small it is not worth the many people’s lives it could endanger if legalized. The majority of those who would seek assisted suicide “evidence signs of symptoms of a major psychiatric illness (Clark, 147).” People with mental illnesses would see death as the only alternative, and neither them nor their doctor would know of their condition. Individuals undiagnosed with depression or other mental illnesses would then seek assisted suicide as a means of treatment, when many other viable alternatives would be practical. Assisted suicide could weaken our society’s value of life. Perhaps the most significant danger of this could be found in the relationship between HMO’s, doctors, and patients. HMO’s are renown for their tight thriftiness. They often change physician’s prescribed treatment for cheaper alternatives. With keeping costs down in mind, many doctors ...