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Physician Assisted Suicide for Terminally Ill Patients: An Argumentative Essay

Amal Mohammad Tassier Ababneh *

Dying process is too often needlessly protracted by these medical technology is consequently marked by incapacitations, intolerable pain, and indignity. Physician assisted suicide defines as knowingly and intentionally providing a person with the knowledge or means or both required to commit suicide, including counseling about lethal doses of drugs, prescribing such lethal doses or supplying the drugs. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to create an argumentative essay to argue the use of physician assisted suicide for terminally ill patients as a last resort to end their suffer and end their life, while taking the legal and ethical points of view of opponents and proponents into consideration.