Suicide

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Suicide and Assisted Suicide
The ability to end life, or suicide as it is well known, is an issue most people refer to young teens. In all actuality there are two types of suicide which man kind may act apon: 1) The ability and free will of man to take his own life for any reason he feels fit, 2) The ability of a medical physician to assist medically to end ones life. Assisted suicide is given to death penalty cases in many states via Lethal Injection.
In our world under god I believe along with many that it is wrong to end your life purposely for reasons of pressure. “Every human being is taught from childhood that suicidal people are shameful, sinful, weak, and selfish.”(The Stigma of Suicide Within Us, 28). In the early years of life on this planet suicide was viewed as a way of repenting sins towards Pharaohs and Rulers. As the world progressed, taking your life became seen as an “easy way out of daily troubles.”(Web) Today the death rate in suicide in the US is nearly 30,000 a year, and most victims are white males…79%. Ones decision to take his/her own life is unavoidable and unpreventable, the attack for this is helping the overall view of life and daily involvement with society. The government needs to focus on the number of people taking their own lives and help figure out a P.O.A. for raising the level of subconscious love of life through out the country.
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As stated before, one of the only ways of assisted medical suicide was thru lethal injection given to criminal as punishment for there crimes. Does a society based on equal rights have the base structure to end a mans life? I believe that the death penalty by assisted suicide should be used, but for only severe cases. Medical doctors have been studying the field of “Medical Suicide” and have come up with the lethal dose of drugs which end a persons life. “Anesthetic - Sodium thiopental, Paralyzing agent - Pancuronium bromide, To...