In Memory of Ethics: A Dissection of Ethical and Social Issues in Pakistani Professional Healthcare Practice

Physician-Assisted Suicide - The Ethical Insights

Author(s): Aiman Farzeen, Areeba Mubashir and Shiza Malik * .

Pp: 94-102 (9)

DOI: 10.2174/9789815223859124010014

* (Excluding Mailing and Handling)

Abstract

PAS is opted for when the patient is terminally ill and he/she no longer wants to continue life-supporting treatments that are often excruciating, financially unaffordable and offer no hope for survival to terminally ill patients. This chapter talks about the ethical concern of physician-assisted suicide (PAS), which is one of the perennial ethical problems of medicine, how it can be distinguished from euthanasia, and what are the different types of practices that constitute end-of-life procedures. It talks about the factors that make PAS a legal and ethical issue. Furthermore, PAS’s prevalence across the world, especially in Pakistan, is discussed, and also the causative factors leading to PAS have been shed light upon. Moreover, the influence it has on individuals and society and the ways by which we can address issues encountered as a result of physician-assisted suicide are made part of this discussion.


Keywords: Alternative options, Causative factors, Ethical debate, End-of-life decision making, Healthcare sector, Hippocratic oath, Lawful implications, Physician-assisted suicide, Prevalence, Potential consequences, Patient autonomy, Religious teachings, Social depravity, Terminal illness.

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