Physician assisted suicide is an issue that has been debated over for many years. Many argue that people have the right to die by any means possible while others argue that human life should be held in high regard and protected at all costs. While physician assisted suicide, and active euthanasia is forbidden, currently in the United States courts and physicians in cases of the terminally ill and those who are in a chronic vegetative state generally accept passive euthanasia. Utilitarian way of thinking is “Act to promote the greatest good for the greatest number”. Using Utilitarian justification I will explain why physician assisted suicide should be legalized. Utilitarian theory doesn’t always have to apply to a greatest number. It is broke apart into quality v quantity type of good and the effect it has on those to whom the good is distributed. In this case a terminally ill patient and his family would be the small quantity of people that will receive the greatest quality of good from physician assisted suicide.
Physician assisted suicide is a moral procedure because it frees the terminally ill patient from all the pain in suffering while his loved ones also don’t have to suffer emotionally and financially. I think it is a moral procedure if the terminally ill patient and loved talk about and fully discuss everything and if the patient wants it himself it is definitely moral. If he believes that this is what he wants. If the family has to make the decision for the patient I think its also moral since they are the loved once and they know the patient the best. If they decide that there is no other hope for the patient and the only thing they can ...