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PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE
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Physician Assisted Suicide Many Christian are against physician assisted suicide. They believe it is not right for people to choose life or death, but only God has that choice to make. Christians are not educated on the facts on assisted suicide and automatically voice their opinions even though they have never read or talked to people who support assisted suicide. Before Christians condemn the idea of physician assisted suicide they should know the facts then voice their opinion. Physicain-assisted suicide is when a doctor provides patients with medicine that takes their lives. Many Christians say doctors should be saving lives and not destroying them, but others would argue that in some patient’s cases it would be the best alternative. Should physician assisted suicide be an option for terminally ill patients, or should it be illegal? This is a question people all across America have been trying to answer for many years. Each person may have their own different views and opinions on this heavily debated topic. There are three objections to physician-assisted suicide. Many hospitals today are faced with financial pressures due to the outrageous costs of care terminally ill patients. Due to these pressures, they readily encourage assisted suicides. It is feared that eventually, hospitals will pressure their patients into suicide in order to relieve some of their financial stresses. Managed care plans are often financed with employer-self insured funds or with premiums paid by employers. The managed care plan has an incentive to hold down spending in either case: to save employer's money and to retain a profit by spending less than the amount of the premiums. The care plan tries to cut spending by profit-sharing bonuses and risk-sharing arrangements. Confronted with these financial pressures, physicians may turn to assisted suicide as a means of reducing costs of caring for enrollees. In efforts to cut the costs, physicians may feel they represent the interests of society when encouraging patients to choose less costly alternatives. They may favor assisted suicide for older patients. One doctor said, “The elderly have enjoyed enough resources of society and should make way for the young.” The second type of objection to physician-assisted suicide is associated with the patient’s family.
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