Physician Assisted Death, Should it be legal in all US Medicine Paper

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PAD Should Be Legalized in All States in the USA
Physician-assisted death (PAD) or suicide is the practice where terminally ill patients are provided with a lethal medication by a doctor to end their life when they want. In other words, it allows severely sick individuals an opportunity to decide when they want to die so that they can end their suffering. In particular, some diseases, such as cancer, are hard to cure or treat when they are in their advanced stages. That is the reason why some states have legalized PAD so that patients can die in dignity instead of suffering from pain, and they will never get better. Some of the states in the United States of America (USA) where PAD is legalized include Oregon, California, New Jersey, Vermont, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Washington, and District of Columbia. In Montana, the court is the one that decides whether a doctor should offer a lethal prescription for terminally ill patients. Only patients with terminal illnesses and who have a prognosis of under six months to live should be prescribed these medications. In states that have not legalized PAD, physicians can be prosecuted for prescribing lethal medications to patients who are terminally ill to hasten their death. PAD should be legalized for terminally ill patients with incurable diseases and who have a short period to live, usually under six months.
PAD is constitutional since it is the patients who choose when they want to die and not their physicians. Although some people get terminally sick and recover, others have diseases that cannot be treated. For example, a patient with a stage four cancer has a short period to live. The remaining part of life is usually painful, particularly when one understands that death is the final outcome. Psychologically, healing is a mental process. As such, many individuals with terminal illnesses and with a short period to live would prefer to take a lethal prescription to end their lives instead of suffering (Quill et al. 245). The primary thing that can give patient energy to overcome pain is when one knows that he or she will recover. Severely sick patients with a short period to live should be given a chance to decide whether they wish to die early or live for the remaining part of their lives, which is painful. These individuals have no hope of being cured, and even if they decide not to take lethal prescriptions, the situation never turns into their favor. For this reason, PAD helps such people to end their suffering since they die in dignity.
States that have implemented the Death with Dignity Act (DDA) did it at different times to help terminally ill individuals to have the freedom of dying with dignity. Oregon was the first state to approve the bill into law in 1997, California in 2015, Maine in 2019, Vermont in 2013, Washington in 2008, New Jersey in 2019, and Colorado in 2016 (CNN). As time goes, other states will join the list as they understand that there is no need to keep a terminally ill patient alive to suffer when he or she wants to die in dignity. Besides, not all people who are prescribed lethal medications take them. For instance, since the DDA was implemented in Oregon, up to February 2019, about 2,217 have...