Howard Ball’s lead essay on this issue is clear and helpful. Yet I think the term “Physician Assisted Death” is evasive and euphemistic. Physicians have for centuries helped patients to die—that is, to endure the process that ends in their death. The question is whether physicians should help them kill themselves—and whether the law should allow physicians to do so. Thus I will use the term Physician Assisted Suicide (PAS). This raises a moral question (Is PAS morally right?), and a legal question (Should PAS be against the law?).
There is something wrong about people trying to play the role of God. The way we deal with evilness, with pain and human suffering are all failed attempts man has made in trying to explain in terms of the known technological and physical elements what is in reality of divine or spiritual nature. The unavoidable, imminent, yet uncertainty related to the moment of death, has proven to bring the thoughts of the starkest unbelievers, and of the greatest scientific or artistic minds to humble to there knees confronted with the reality of the last breath left with the curiosity, if not hope, that there must be something more than this. The book of Job, the story of King David but more recently thru story of a son or daughter of someone we know.Physician Assisted Death in America: Ethics, Law, and Policy Conflicts•Tweet•Like• is most definitely NOT what Jesus would do