Entry # 2 - January 28 2014

Docs offside on physician-assisted suicide

January 28 2014
By: 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.