2. Elderly and critically ill feel they have less respect than stable individuals giving them the feeling that suicide is the best option for a peaceful passing (Garrison, 2007).
3. Family members pressuring elderly terminal patients into thinking it is their duty to take their life so as not to become a burden financially, emotionally, or physically (Dyer, 2014).
The Legal Side.
On June 5, 2014, Bill 52 passed with a voting of 94 to 22 (Dyer, 2014). This Bill allows individuals the privilege to the end of life consideration they merit. As of 2014, four locales in North America permit therapeutic guide to pass on: Washington, Vermont, Oregon, and now Quebec (Dyer, 2014). Oregon was the central state in North America where specialist helped suicide was authorized by the U.S. Supreme Court (Garrison, 2007).
Christine St-Pierre did not vote for Bill 52; she was worried that relatives might influence elderly terminal patients into thinking it is their prerogative to die (Dyer, 2014). Christine is Quebec's Universal Relations Priest. Although, Christine felt this way Ruth von Fuchs felt differently she stated "society argues that doctor-assisted death should be allowed in two situations:.
1. Where individuals choose it for themselves.
2. When a doctor or close relatives deem that a person who is incapable of deciding for himself/herself is under unbearable or incurable suffering" (Garrison, 2007).
One legal issue they have argued over is the removal of feeding tubes. The feeling is that removing feeding tubes is starving a patient to death if they are surviving in all other ways such as the case with Karen Ann Quinlan (Perry, 2013). In the Quinlan case, she collapsed and ended up diagnosed as persistent vegetative state(PVS) (Perry, 2013). In the end, her father was given the approval to removal the ventilator, but not the feeding tube, once the ventilator was removed his daughter lived another ten years (Perry, 2013).