A NEW WAY TO SECURE THE RIGHT TO DIE: LAWS AGAINST CAUSING PREMATURE DEATH
SYNOPSIS:
Most recent attempts to secure the right to die have focused on adding provisions to the health-care sections of our laws so that physicians could prescribe life-ending drugs to be taken by the patient when he or she chooses to die.
However, there is another section of our laws that needs to be reformed. Our homicide laws usually include a provision against assisting suicide.
Since suicide itself is no longer a crime in most places, we can also repeal or revise the laws against assisting suicide and replace those laws with new laws against causing premature death.
When our laws define the new crime of causing premature death, these laws will also define wisely-chosen deaths that were NOT premature.
OUTLINE:
1. LAWS AGAINST SUICIDE AND ASSISTING SUICIDE
2. REPEALING OUTDATED LAWS AGAINST ASSISTING SUICIDE
3. NEW LAWS AGAINST CAUSING PREMATURE DEATH
4. SAFEGUARDS TO INCLUDE IN NEW LAWS AGAINST CAUSING PREMATURE DEATH
5. CONCLUSION: INSTEAD OF DYING TOO SOON, WE CAN DIE AT THE RIGHT TIME
The complete essay (about 4 pages) appears here on the Internet:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/CY-RTD-N.html
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