Ethical Dilemma: Assisted Suicide

In the article, “What we lose when we gain the right to die,” written by Tara Isabella Burton on May 21, 2018 in Vox, the author focuses on physician-assisted suicide. This article looks at David Goodall, a 104-year-old man who sought out physician-assisted suicide because he no longer wanted to continue living. The idea of assisted suicide brings up a moral dilemma of when a does a person have the right to seek out assisted-living suicide. Some believe that the metaethical principle would be every case is different for everyone. In some cases, people seek out assisted suicide because they…