# Physician-assisted suicide **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [January 28, 2006, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physician-assisted-suicide/341969 "2006-01-28T08:38:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mrald](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mrald](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrald)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physician-assisted-suicide/341969/1 "2006-01-28T08:38:23Z")
I am doing a research paper on this topic for the University of phoenix(don’t go there that place is one for the pit) and I have hit a wall somewhat. People don’t really has a solid opinion here. Very wishy-washy. I don’t get it really and polling people has been a pain. So, does anyone have an actual opinion on this matter? Is it to gray of an area? ---
**Author:** ![DMC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dmc/32/18049_2.png) [@DMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMC)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physician-assisted-suicide/341969/2 "2006-01-28T10:08:30Z")
These should help get you started for now: > **[Oregon Assisted Suicide Law Upheld by SCOTUS](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=354593)** > > The Supreme Court today upheld the Oregon law permitting doctors to prescribe lethal doses of painkillers to hasten death. In a 6-3 vote, with Roberts, Scalia, and Thomas dissenting, the court ruled that federal drug law did not overrule the right of... > **[When is it acceptable to committ suicide?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=347101)** > > In this thread asking about if suicide is bad, I posed the same question I always do when this subject comes up. To the people who feel suicide is selfish and does irreparable harm to those left behind and therefore shouldn’t happen, when can one... > **[Why are you for Physician Assisted Suicide?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=335237)** > > I have an assignment in which I am trying to summarize the various positions and arguments involving Physician Assisted Suicide. I’m having a hard time finding arguments on the Pro side other than, “The life of an individual belongs to an individual,... ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physician-assisted-suicide/341969/3 "2006-01-28T12:35:48Z")
I’m for it. If you’re terminally ill and looking at months or years of physical and emotional hell, you should have the right to get out. You should also have the right to have someone help you so you don’t accidentally live in even worse shape than you were in when you decided you wanted out. People frequently make mistakes in their suicide plan and end up with a less-than-complete attempt. Oregon has it almost right. I believe people who have more than six months to live with a terminal disease should also have the right to opt out. The rest of the country needs to take a step back, put down the bible, and figure out why they feel the need to interfere with the most basic personal liberty we have…the right to control our exit from this life. ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physician-assisted-suicide/341969/4 "2006-01-28T15:07:42Z")
I’m for it. We treat our pets better than we treat ourselves. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physician-assisted-suicide/341969/5 "2006-01-28T15:31:09Z")
> [@Kalhoun](#): > > People frequently make mistakes in their suicide plan and end up with a less-than-complete attempt. After my cousin and his wife divorced she attempted suicide, pills I think. It didn’t work, and now she is a total invalid, helpless in a wheelchair being tended by her mother. Her young daughter, who lived with her father my cousin, had to be raised with the knowledge “Mommy is sick now, and can’t talk.” ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physician-assisted-suicide/341969/6 "2006-01-28T15:45:02Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > After my cousin and his wife divorced she attempted suicide, pills I think. It didn’t work, and now she is a total invalid, helpless in a wheelchair being tended by her mother. Her young daughter, who lived with her father my cousin, had to be raised with the knowledge “Mommy is sick now, and can’t talk.” Jesus. What a nightmare. I’m sorry you have to go through that. ---
**Author:** ![mrald](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mrald](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrald)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2006, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physician-assisted-suicide/341969/7 "2006-01-29T03:04:53Z")
> [@DMC](#): > > These should help get you started for now: > > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=354593](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=354593) > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=347101](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=347101) > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=335237](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=335237) Hey! thanks