Medical personnel described Jennifer’s pain as the most agonizing physical pain they had ever witnessed. And since permanently sedating her …show more content…
Although most doctors do not take this version of The Oath, it states rather clearly, “I will not give a lethal drug to anyone if I am asked, nor will I advise such a plan.” The argument over a person’s right to die usually centers around cases of patients with painful, terminal illnesses, who are suffering too much and do not want to continue living. The idea that it should be illegal to help someone commit suicide is often attributed to the Biblical Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Kill. Despite this, many societies have allowed physician-assisted suicide in recent years. The Netherlands and Switzerland have legalized the act, allowing patients, like Craig Ewert, in The Suicide Tourist, to travel to these countries to end their lives. In 2006, the U.S. Supreme Court said that the right to physician-assisted suicide cases should be left up to the states. They had previously ruled in 1997 that Americans do not have a Constitutional right to doctor-assisted