Physician-assisted suicide occurs when a physician helps a person take his or her own life by giving advice, writing a prescription for lethal medication, or assisting the individual with some device which allows the person to take his or her own life. The physician lends expertise, but the person does the act. I think that there are many arguments against it. Firstly, there is the old case that all human life is sacred. Not animal …
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…will also change how physicians view life, and will, because of cost-cutting demands of managed care, place doctors in a conflict of interest situation. Managed care may give many doctors financial incentives to encourage ill patients to choose assisted suicide. Already many patients requesting physician-assisted suicide are not terminally ill with cancer or plagued with pain, but rather significantly depressed individuals that could best be treated with anti-depressants and support rather than with lethal injections.