In thirty seven pages this paper examines physician assisted suicide and euthanasia legalization in the U.S. along with the Death with Dignity law in Oregon to support the contention that this practice should be legalized. Twenty two sources are cited in the bibliography and there is also a Table of Contents included.
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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION [Tutorial: This paper can be structured and approached in a variety of ways. Your TPS writer is structuring the paper so that it begins with
a general introduction to the topic of euthanasia including a discussion on the effects of advances in medical knowledge and technology. Note that it is the same knowledge and technology
that is responsible for saving numerous lives that also extends the lives of persons who will never recover and who are in pain and want to preserve a certain amount
of dignity in their deaths.] Most people die what can only be called a bad death. It seldom happens suddenly or in ones sleep. Death is more often
accompanied with pain, suffering, anxiety and frustrations. All too often, people are extremely sick and beyond any kind of treatment intervention that will actually improve their quality of life. The
interventions may extend their time on earth but they certainly do nothing to make the individual feel like living any longer. Paris addressed this issue, saying that the rise in
technological medicine has conquered diseases and saves lives that once were "beyond rescue" but it comes at a very high price -- often, years of pain, suffering and despair (Paris,
1997). Patients like Karen Ann Quinlan were trapped by technology that could ward off death but could not restore health, making life worse than death (Paris, 1997). One of
the things that modern medicine cannot do is guarantee a patient they will die with dignity. One study found that half of all conscious patients who died in a hospital
experienced moderate to severe pain at least half the time during the last three days of life (Paris, 1997). This fact leads patients demanding to control their own fate (Paris,