Physician-Assisted Suicide And Euthanasia Abstra

Physician-Assisted Suicide and EuthanasiaNameInstitutionAbstractEuthanasia is a model applicable to the medical category which means relaxed death or gentle death. It can also be defined as the considerable speeding up of one's death based on life-threatening medical conditions. Euthanasia is among the vital issues that have posed controversies in the past years. It has been a relevant issue in human rights discourse as it also raises challenges to ethical and legal issues relating to patients and healthcare providers. In today's world, despite the improvement in the technological and scientific progress, most importantly in the field of laws and regulations that relay to human health, there is still controversy over the concept of peaceful death. Hence, this ethical problem may impose health care practitioners to the legal and ethical threat. There are several opinions based on the doctrines of individual morality and religious beliefs. Thus, scientists are working hard to reach an acceptable consensus on this ethical dilemma. Before a doctor withdraws or withholds treatment of any patient, he or she has to consider the cultural, social and religious factors when making such choices. The