Physician-assisted DeathCynthia BlakeIntroduction to Ethics & Social Responsibility 120Carol BierceMay 28, 2011Discussions on end of life decisions are not new and have been around for a long time. This subject was and has been a discussion with two opposing sides for a very long time. Euthanasia or assisted suicide implies the right to be relieved from pain and suffering, as well as the right to die. Every person has their own reasons for wanting to hasten death. Physician-assisted suicides may be considered a logical and moral decision by some individuals. On the other hand it is still considered to be unethical and immoral by the opposing few. Ethics is the study of the “ought’s” and the “should” (Mosser, 2010). The ethics of the situation should raise the following questions, which has the right to end a life, does it violate God’s authority, do physicians have the right if asked, and should it be ok if the individual is suffering. If these ethical questions are asked prior to the decisions then the outcome may be a little different. This paper will touch a little on each one of the ethical reasoning’s on why physician assisted suicide is morally wrong. Now one must understand the difference in physician assisted death and euthanasia. Euthanasia is the process, in which the physician is the acting party in the death of the patient, and physician assisted is where the physician provides the medication and the patient ends their own life. Being as though the two are very different they are both morally and ethically the same. Today’s advances in medicine have reached possibilities that were only dreamed of in the past. Medicine has advanced in ways that allow us as individuals to cure chronic illnesses and end pain and suffering caused by certain illnesses. The rapid changes have given us the power to end some suffering as well as prolong the suffering of others who suffer from illnesses that have no cure as of yet. Some would argue that...