The Moral Ethics Of Assisted Suicide

The moral ethics of assisted suicide

Assisted suicide is an issue that today is on everyone’s lips. He appeals to dignity in dying, by stopping the suffering that the person is going through, among others. What is never thought about is what this act can cause in the person who is asked to carry out this work, in what produces in the health personnel who have worked hard by delivering palliative care to alleviate the personthat suffers. Also keep in mind that it is an illegal act. 

Faced with this, assisted suicide must be rejected under any circumstance, whatever the situation in which the sick person is. The work of health professionals is governed by a code of ethics, where four basic ethical principles are explained, within which the non -maleficence is found. In the case of assisted suicide, the patient asks another person to intervene in his help to seek his death. The non -maleficence corresponds to the fourth and final principle of medical ethics and obeys the "primum non noceere" of medical practice that refers to "first not harming" and includes not risking the damage. 

Under this point of view, assisted suicide could not be accepted under any circumstances, since the patient would be asking the health team to transgress the principle of non -maleficence, thus going against their own principles and against medical ethics. Many times there is talk of practicing assisted suicide so that the person dies dignified within his human reality.

But the good health of man cannot give his life with dignity, since he does not have life in herself, but is participating in her. In this way, the absence of health (disease) does not make dignity disappear. This loss is awarded to the patient due to the reactions of his family and that of health professionals, caused by the appearance of the patient. 

Assisted suicide will never be a right that claims to die dignity, since dying with dignity should not be understood as a right to end life, but as a right to die in an environment worthy of the human being of the human being . That is, the right to live human death, since, when he dies, the only thing that could be subject to our freedom is the attitude we take towards her . Other positions argue that the loss of movement and activity, independence and other physical discomforts can lead to suffering beyond pain, so, continue living losing all meaning and quality. Another basic ethical principles of health professionals, respect for patient autonomy are appealed here. But it is society and its laws that prohibit carrying an act of this magnitude, together with the clinical ethics that surrounds health professionals in their activities. 

Therefore, if the doctor does not abidepatient autonomy. Putting this in a balance, it would bow to the side of abstaining in front of this type of request. The assisted suicide was, is and will continue to be a controversial issue. There are firm and solid postures against and in favor of the subject. Doctors must appeal for worthy palliative care to alleviate the greatest amount of ailments and discomforts presented by a patient, so that the end of his life is calm and painless.