Physician-assisted dying (PAD) is a controversial matter of concern due to the conflicting moral, ethical, legal, professional, and religious points on the issue. In fact, it comes down to helping a patient end their life by prescribing a lethal medication. It is commonly seen as a demonstration of disrespect for...

Euthanasia, also referred to as physician-assisted suicide, is the term used to describe when a person takes an intentional action for the express purpose of ending a life, in order to provide relief from intolerable suffering. The subject has been extremely complicated in the United States and across the globe,...

The act of assisted dying is one of the most controversial and important ethical issues which we face today. To talk of euthanasia is also to talk of the realities of human suffering, of death and of the limits of human freedom and of governmental law. By providing an analysis...

Over the decades, there has been continuing debate about ethics and euthanasia. Euthanasia is when someone is able to remain alive in a comma after following a severe injury. This impacts the body's ability to perform the most basic functions without the assistance of various machines (i.e. feeding tubes and...

Introduction Medically-assisted suicide is an extremely sensitive subject in the modern world. The subject has medical, psychological and religious implications that all confound and plague the ethics behind this controversial operation. While the ethics and the decisions that lead someone to choosing a medically-assisted suicide have been well researched with...