Docs offside on physician-assisted suicide
January 28 2014By: 0scar Qi
CBCnews: http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/docs-offside-on-physician-assisted-suicide-1.2448089
The Author is a
doctor. He was asked to assist people to suicide many times. However, he hated
to do it. He hates to kill his patients. Only 16 percent of the Canadian
doctors would like to involve in assisting suicide. According to a survey in
New England, only 36 percent of doctors in 74 different countries were in favor
of assist suicide. The doctors in those places don't really care about the
public opinion. They will never harm their patient in anyway. They think that
their job is to save the patient not to kill them, no matter what their conditions
are. However, another survey shows that 69 percent of the Canadian population suggested
that they support the assist suicide. That’s a very high result. Suicide is not
illegal in Canada, but assist suicide is. Some people thinks that to kill
patients instead of help go through their darkest hour in their life will
destroy our humanity. And also, some other department can do this kind of job.
Doctor should never take away patient’s life.
In my opinion, I
think the doctor should always save the patient, no matter what the condition
is. No matter how the patient is suffering, alive is always better than death.
For the doctor who’s operating the assist suicide, they will have a feeling of
killing a life instead of helping a life, which is true. We only have 1 life,
when we die, all of our acknowledgement will leave us and never comeback. I
know a person who was suffering from fatal stroke; she was hanging on the edge
of the lifeline. My dad was a brain surgeon. He told the family of the patient
to give up. The situation was like the patient has no hope at all, she’ll die
soon or later. However, one of her family refused to let the doctor operate
assist suicide. That’s her daughter. One month later, she woke up. The miracle is
happening around us, we should never give up our hope. Also, assist suicide is basically
murdering. That’s why I’m so against it. Every life is worth value, and we
should never give up our hope.
