No Pain All the Gain
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No Pain All the Gain
Sybil Corvax Mon Jun 07, 2010 11:42 am
Excruciating. That is the only word to describe it, really. Excruciating, agonizing. At times, it is a wonder how such a person can put up with it. There is a lot of blood and even more pity. Aching of the bones and joints and a longing for it all to end. Not even able to feed themselves; unable to stand, walk, move without the aide of others.
Is such a thing really considered living? Is it really a life that one has no choice, but to live? Even when they wish nothing more, but to die? Hardly. Death would be so much better for someone when breathing is agony all in itself. However, when a patient with such an excruciating terminal illness no longer has the ability to even speak, how is it possible for them to take their own life if that is what they truly, honestly wish? It is not possible and so they need the help of another. For this very reason, the laws surrounding assisted suicide in Canada should be amended for specific circumstances, allowing for the additional offence of non-culpable homicide.
Cases in previous years have suggested that the door for assisted suicide is opening, such as Sue Rodriguez, Wayne Hussey, Juliana Zsiros, and Chantal Maltais. Sue Rodriguez, a sufferer of ALS (Lou Gehrig‘s disease), is one of the first to open the eyes to the positive aspect of assisted suicide, despite the fact that she lost her case.
…judges dissented, finding that Rodriguez was discriminated against on grounds of disability, in violation of the charter, because the option of attempting suicide, legally available to anyone, was not available to her because she was physically unable to commit suicide. The majority (of 5 judges) felt that even if she was discriminated against, the discrimination was deemed to be within the reasonable limits that could be imposed in a free and democratic society.
It was a close case, indeed. Five to four, all to protect the sanctity that is human life. However, even this ruling was not about to stop Rodriguez who later committed suicide (with the help of an anonymous doctor) in the presence of a friend by the name of Svend Robinson who was never charged with a crime. Though it is rumoured that Rodriguez had help, considering she was almost near the point of no return with her ALS which was the reason for the case to begin with. The judges of this case obviously argued over the topic of assisted suicide before the verdict was made and even though Rodriguez did indeed lose her case, it is almost certain that if the case were to be presented again today to the Supreme Court, the ruling would probably be overturned. It should also be known that the majority of those who are to help a person commit suicide (assist them) are either “found not guilty or [are] given a suspended sentence.” Overall, that means that though assisted suicide is illegal, because of the morals people today now hold (at least in certain circumstances), those who help one who cannot commit suicide on their own are not likely to be severely punished. Though, this is only in most cases and is certainly not in all of them. Such as in the case of Robert Latimer who was tried in the mercy killing of his daughter who suffered from cerebral palsy and extreme bouts of constant pain. Though Robert Latimer was doing the moral thing, he was still found guilty of murder mostly because his daughter was too young to give consent (being only twelve) and there was no indication at all that she asked for help in dying in the first place. Even though Latimer’s heart was in the right place, he obviously went about assisting his daughter in the wrong way and it is agreeable that this count of assisted suicide be considered murder.
It is obvious in itself that the views of people and society revolving around this subject are changing. Not everyone’s view is changing, but all the same, the views of today’s society is changing and leaning towards the possibility to assisted suicide.
• 2002-Nov-28: Poll shows in favour of physician assisted suicide where physician assisted suicide is supported by 55% of Canadian adults and opposed by only 36%”
• 2007- May: “A Health Psychology study found that 6% of patients in palliative care surveyed (twenty two out of a total of three seventy nine) said that they would request physician assisted suicide if such a procedure were legally available.
• 2007-Jun-08: Significant majority of the three hundred seventy nine terminal cancer patients favour access to PAS (patient assisted suicide). “63% said that PAS should be legalized in Canada”; “40% said that they would consider making a request for PAS if their health degenerated to the worst case scenario and their typical concern was uncontrollable pain”; “10% said that if PAS was available, they would have already requested it”; “5.8% said that if they could have access to PAS, they would definitely initiate a request to end their lives right away in their current circumstances.
This is only a small portion of polls conducted, all involving similar questions and outcomes. Assisted suicide is wanted in Canada, especially by those who suffer from the pain of terminal illnesses just as Rodriguez did. Some have cancer, others have ALS, Aids, or some sort of other diseases that in the end are painful to the point that these patients just want to die. Today’s society has the idea that morally, these people should be able to have their choice. These people who are unable to take their lives on their own should be able to still have the option through specially trained physicians. Each year, the numbers of those who are in favour of PAS rises and Canada leans more towards the beliefs of countries such as the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Belgium who have already legalized assisted suicide. So it is not just Canada that is leaning more towards the idea. Even the state of Oregon has legally authorized assisted suicide. Canada will more than likely follow; this is evident from the poll results presented above.
To feel helpless, vulnerable, and weak. To not have the ability to walk on your own, eat on your own, or even move your arm on your own; put yourself into the place of a patient with ALS, Cancer, or terminal diseases of the like. Empathize and feel what they must feel. Would you wish to live through something like that? Would you wish to lay on that hospital bed, unable to move, forced to watch those you love watch you die in such pain and agony? It would be better to choose your way of death and time of death, would it not? Even when you are unable to take your own life, to have someone be able to do it for you would be wonderful, would it not? To have the pain end and have your family know that you no longer suffer, that is the way to go. This way, your dignity is saved by someone who has the ability to save it. A doctor specifically trained to end your life as painlessly as possible so that you no longer writhe, cry, and whimper, which is something that you never did before you became ill. If given the choice to live the rest of your life in complete agony, unable to do all that you love, or to die at the hands of a trained physician, what would be chosen? Hopefully the physician as there are very few people who wish to die in agony. Is helping someone to die gently really murder? Some believe it is, that is true. They believe that if assisted suicide were to be legalized, ultimate disaster would occur.
The nature of assisted suicide does not allow you to provide protection for vulnerable people. The whole idea is wrong from the beginning. Assisted suicide is a direct threat to those with chronic disabilities and the elderly…..It’s an issue of the powerful over the weak. We can’t bring in a law that allows you to kill someone.
As says a Mr Alex Schadenberg. He does have a valid point. Assisted suicide can possibly be a threat, but would it be better to watch someone cry out tears as they suffer with unimaginable pain, desperately wishing they could die? PAS would decrease the chances of assisted suicide becoming cold blooded murder as it is an assisted suicide with the aide of a physician trained to help the patient that currently wishes to die. Though, it is assumed that the patient has asked a numerous amount of times for the physician to do what they are trained to do instead of just once (people can change their minds after asking once more likely than if they asked numerous times). “If I cannot give consent to my own death, whose body is this? Who owns my life?” It is only fair that Sue Rodriguez be mentioned again, as these are her words and these words raise a question that needs to be answered. Is it really an option to let people who cannot commit suicide without aide suffer? It is the moral thing to do to allow them their choice, is it not? It is their body, their choice and their death. They have every right to consent to it and every right to have their suffering and pain come to an end. To legalize PAS would benefit the Canadian people who suffer with these diseases as even if they are not thinking about the option of assisted suicide, having the option there will help them all the same. It will give them a sense of peace, knowing that if they decline to a state of no return, they will be able to consent to their own death. They will be able to choose the time and the way it is done. It will be peaceful and painless and their suffering will end. Even if PAS is not used, just the peace it will bring will be a huge benefit to all sufferers.
The laws surrounding assisted suicide and PAS should be strict and most definitely amended. To not allow someone the right to die when facing excruciating pain is wrong especially when they suffer as much as they do and are unable to take their own life. The views of today’s society are changing and leaning for legalizing assisted suicide as many see it as morally right, not only in Canada, but in other countries as well. If that does not sway the mind, then what will? However, words can only do so much. In the end, all that really can be done is to attempt to place yourself into the shoes of one who suffers from terminal disease and see what path you would choose.
Is such a thing really considered living? Is it really a life that one has no choice, but to live? Even when they wish nothing more, but to die? Hardly. Death would be so much better for someone when breathing is agony all in itself. However, when a patient with such an excruciating terminal illness no longer has the ability to even speak, how is it possible for them to take their own life if that is what they truly, honestly wish? It is not possible and so they need the help of another. For this very reason, the laws surrounding assisted suicide in Canada should be amended for specific circumstances, allowing for the additional offence of non-culpable homicide.
Cases in previous years have suggested that the door for assisted suicide is opening, such as Sue Rodriguez, Wayne Hussey, Juliana Zsiros, and Chantal Maltais. Sue Rodriguez, a sufferer of ALS (Lou Gehrig‘s disease), is one of the first to open the eyes to the positive aspect of assisted suicide, despite the fact that she lost her case.
…judges dissented, finding that Rodriguez was discriminated against on grounds of disability, in violation of the charter, because the option of attempting suicide, legally available to anyone, was not available to her because she was physically unable to commit suicide. The majority (of 5 judges) felt that even if she was discriminated against, the discrimination was deemed to be within the reasonable limits that could be imposed in a free and democratic society.
It was a close case, indeed. Five to four, all to protect the sanctity that is human life. However, even this ruling was not about to stop Rodriguez who later committed suicide (with the help of an anonymous doctor) in the presence of a friend by the name of Svend Robinson who was never charged with a crime. Though it is rumoured that Rodriguez had help, considering she was almost near the point of no return with her ALS which was the reason for the case to begin with. The judges of this case obviously argued over the topic of assisted suicide before the verdict was made and even though Rodriguez did indeed lose her case, it is almost certain that if the case were to be presented again today to the Supreme Court, the ruling would probably be overturned. It should also be known that the majority of those who are to help a person commit suicide (assist them) are either “found not guilty or [are] given a suspended sentence.” Overall, that means that though assisted suicide is illegal, because of the morals people today now hold (at least in certain circumstances), those who help one who cannot commit suicide on their own are not likely to be severely punished. Though, this is only in most cases and is certainly not in all of them. Such as in the case of Robert Latimer who was tried in the mercy killing of his daughter who suffered from cerebral palsy and extreme bouts of constant pain. Though Robert Latimer was doing the moral thing, he was still found guilty of murder mostly because his daughter was too young to give consent (being only twelve) and there was no indication at all that she asked for help in dying in the first place. Even though Latimer’s heart was in the right place, he obviously went about assisting his daughter in the wrong way and it is agreeable that this count of assisted suicide be considered murder.
It is obvious in itself that the views of people and society revolving around this subject are changing. Not everyone’s view is changing, but all the same, the views of today’s society is changing and leaning towards the possibility to assisted suicide.
• 2002-Nov-28: Poll shows in favour of physician assisted suicide where physician assisted suicide is supported by 55% of Canadian adults and opposed by only 36%”
• 2007- May: “A Health Psychology study found that 6% of patients in palliative care surveyed (twenty two out of a total of three seventy nine) said that they would request physician assisted suicide if such a procedure were legally available.
• 2007-Jun-08: Significant majority of the three hundred seventy nine terminal cancer patients favour access to PAS (patient assisted suicide). “63% said that PAS should be legalized in Canada”; “40% said that they would consider making a request for PAS if their health degenerated to the worst case scenario and their typical concern was uncontrollable pain”; “10% said that if PAS was available, they would have already requested it”; “5.8% said that if they could have access to PAS, they would definitely initiate a request to end their lives right away in their current circumstances.
This is only a small portion of polls conducted, all involving similar questions and outcomes. Assisted suicide is wanted in Canada, especially by those who suffer from the pain of terminal illnesses just as Rodriguez did. Some have cancer, others have ALS, Aids, or some sort of other diseases that in the end are painful to the point that these patients just want to die. Today’s society has the idea that morally, these people should be able to have their choice. These people who are unable to take their lives on their own should be able to still have the option through specially trained physicians. Each year, the numbers of those who are in favour of PAS rises and Canada leans more towards the beliefs of countries such as the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Belgium who have already legalized assisted suicide. So it is not just Canada that is leaning more towards the idea. Even the state of Oregon has legally authorized assisted suicide. Canada will more than likely follow; this is evident from the poll results presented above.
To feel helpless, vulnerable, and weak. To not have the ability to walk on your own, eat on your own, or even move your arm on your own; put yourself into the place of a patient with ALS, Cancer, or terminal diseases of the like. Empathize and feel what they must feel. Would you wish to live through something like that? Would you wish to lay on that hospital bed, unable to move, forced to watch those you love watch you die in such pain and agony? It would be better to choose your way of death and time of death, would it not? Even when you are unable to take your own life, to have someone be able to do it for you would be wonderful, would it not? To have the pain end and have your family know that you no longer suffer, that is the way to go. This way, your dignity is saved by someone who has the ability to save it. A doctor specifically trained to end your life as painlessly as possible so that you no longer writhe, cry, and whimper, which is something that you never did before you became ill. If given the choice to live the rest of your life in complete agony, unable to do all that you love, or to die at the hands of a trained physician, what would be chosen? Hopefully the physician as there are very few people who wish to die in agony. Is helping someone to die gently really murder? Some believe it is, that is true. They believe that if assisted suicide were to be legalized, ultimate disaster would occur.
The nature of assisted suicide does not allow you to provide protection for vulnerable people. The whole idea is wrong from the beginning. Assisted suicide is a direct threat to those with chronic disabilities and the elderly…..It’s an issue of the powerful over the weak. We can’t bring in a law that allows you to kill someone.
As says a Mr Alex Schadenberg. He does have a valid point. Assisted suicide can possibly be a threat, but would it be better to watch someone cry out tears as they suffer with unimaginable pain, desperately wishing they could die? PAS would decrease the chances of assisted suicide becoming cold blooded murder as it is an assisted suicide with the aide of a physician trained to help the patient that currently wishes to die. Though, it is assumed that the patient has asked a numerous amount of times for the physician to do what they are trained to do instead of just once (people can change their minds after asking once more likely than if they asked numerous times). “If I cannot give consent to my own death, whose body is this? Who owns my life?” It is only fair that Sue Rodriguez be mentioned again, as these are her words and these words raise a question that needs to be answered. Is it really an option to let people who cannot commit suicide without aide suffer? It is the moral thing to do to allow them their choice, is it not? It is their body, their choice and their death. They have every right to consent to it and every right to have their suffering and pain come to an end. To legalize PAS would benefit the Canadian people who suffer with these diseases as even if they are not thinking about the option of assisted suicide, having the option there will help them all the same. It will give them a sense of peace, knowing that if they decline to a state of no return, they will be able to consent to their own death. They will be able to choose the time and the way it is done. It will be peaceful and painless and their suffering will end. Even if PAS is not used, just the peace it will bring will be a huge benefit to all sufferers.
The laws surrounding assisted suicide and PAS should be strict and most definitely amended. To not allow someone the right to die when facing excruciating pain is wrong especially when they suffer as much as they do and are unable to take their own life. The views of today’s society are changing and leaning for legalizing assisted suicide as many see it as morally right, not only in Canada, but in other countries as well. If that does not sway the mind, then what will? However, words can only do so much. In the end, all that really can be done is to attempt to place yourself into the shoes of one who suffers from terminal disease and see what path you would choose.
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