Kevorkian commenced massive controversy on the moral issues involved with physician assisted suicide. In Kevorkian’s defence he claimed he had prevented many patients suffer from unnecessary pain and allowed his patients to die with dignity. During the 1990’s attention was brought to Kevorkian after he assisted the suicide of Janet Adkins a 45-year-old women who had alzheimer’s disease. Adkin heard over the media of Kevorkian’s invention of a suicide machine that allowed patients to die a lot more effectively. Kevorkian accepted to help Adkin by using the suicide machine which was done in a public park (Batten). This issue striked mass controversy causing Kevorkian to appear on television shows and newspapers around the world. This situation occurs often and it is very power abusive. Instead of the physician finding an alternative or a more effective way to assess the situation they come to the conclusion to kill their patient, this shows how much power a physician can have over your decisions. Kevorkian played a major role in physician assisted suicide because of the amount of lives he took. The numbers of fatal incidents revolved around Kevorkian was astonishing this behavior encouraged other people to follow his footsteps. This made others believe that physician assisted death is the correct and most ethical method to avoid suffering and pain instead of other options such as palliative
Kevorkian commenced massive controversy on the moral issues involved with physician assisted suicide. In Kevorkian’s defence he claimed he had prevented many patients suffer from unnecessary pain and allowed his patients to die with dignity. During the 1990’s attention was brought to Kevorkian after he assisted the suicide of Janet Adkins a 45-year-old women who had alzheimer’s disease. Adkin heard over the media of Kevorkian’s invention of a suicide machine that allowed patients to die a lot more effectively. Kevorkian accepted to help Adkin by using the suicide machine which was done in a public park (Batten). This issue striked mass controversy causing Kevorkian to appear on television shows and newspapers around the world. This situation occurs often and it is very power abusive. Instead of the physician finding an alternative or a more effective way to assess the situation they come to the conclusion to kill their patient, this shows how much power a physician can have over your decisions. Kevorkian played a major role in physician assisted suicide because of the amount of lives he took. The numbers of fatal incidents revolved around Kevorkian was astonishing this behavior encouraged other people to follow his footsteps. This made others believe that physician assisted death is the correct and most ethical method to avoid suffering and pain instead of other options such as palliative