Supreme Court-Right to Die

The first argument for those in favor of phyisican-assisted suicide is that of equal protection. The Supreme Court ruled in the Cruzan case that any competent individual could refuse life saving medical treatment. In my opinion there is absolutely no distinction between refusing extraordinary life saving means and hastening eminent death with physician assisted suicide. In either case the end result will be the same and since one is

The agonizing decision to commit suicide can only be arrived at by much time of thought and introspection. This very personal process is precisely what the fourteenth amendment is to protect. Although Casey dealt with the issue of abortion the debate over physician-assisted suicide fits the criterion for due process protection established in the Casey case.

Physician-assisted suicide should be protected under the Constitution of the United States based on Americans’ due process rights and equal protection. Citizens’ intimate, deeply personal decisions should not be infringed upon by the state. Laws banning physician-assisted suicide do so. The state does have an interest in protecting the lives of it citizens, however that interest in no way outweighs the personal liberty granted to all individuals of this free society.

protected under the Constitution the other, physician-assisted suicide should be as well. It is after all the underlying illness or disease that has brought the individual to deaths door, it is that individuals right to determine how and when they wish to pass through it. A competent individual protected under the law set in the Cruzan case should apply in the situation of physician-assisted suicide as well. The fact that they are not is a highly hypocritical position that I believe the court was i

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