Part One
Grace Pastin holds the view on death with dignity with much zeal and tireless devotion. According to Grace the speaker, there should be no individuals who should be allowed to die in excruciating pain thus she fully supports physician-assisted dying. During her talk, Grace explores a variety of ethical issues, and ethical reasoning about physician supported dying. One of the issues she raises is the sacred nature of human life which encompasses the death with dignity debate. The speaker puts forward the ethical reasoning that the life of terminally ill individuals is paramount and thus should be accorded compassion, respect as well as protection. Additionally, Grace expresses her concerns about the views held by religious groups on the physician-assisted dying debate.
In my opinion, I do not agree with the speaker’s point of view concerning death with dignity. First, the argument that no individual should die from acute pain does not hold true since deaths resulting from other forms of death could also subject an individual to unbearable pain. Furthermore, postulating that physician-assisted dying in cases of individuals with terminal illnesses is a way of initiating death with dignity raises ethical concerns especially about religious beliefs of human life being sacred. Respect for human life forms the core of the sacred nature of human life thus it should not be the call of an individual to end life.
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Part Two
Hello David Litteken. Your post is very informative and worth commendation. It becomes paramount to make wise decisions in life especially when the decisions are bound to affect the lives of others. In my opinion, the decision to cut short a life because an individual is on the blink of dying does not conform to the value of the sacred nature of human life.
Additionally, as you have put it, there are lifelong consequences of the decisions that individuals make about physician-assisted dying. Had the plug been pulled out, much distress would have been experienced not only by the wife but also the entire family. Furthermore, a heavy burden would have been shouldered by the wife for ‘killing’ her mother, which the siblings would probably never understand the rationale of pulling the plug.
