The+Problem+Of+The+Possible+Rationality+Of+Suicide+And+The+Ethics+Of+Physician-Assisted+Suicide

Wittwer, Héctor. "The Problem Of The Possible Rationality Of Suicide And The Ethics Of Physician-Assisted Suicide." International Journal Of Law & Psychiatry 36.5/6 (2013): 419-426 8p. CINAHL Plus with Full Text. Web. 14 June 2016.

Wittwer’s article explains that those whom were against the authorization of physician assisted suicide regularly guaranteed that medical practitioners must not provide for an assistance to suicidal patients due to the ethical taboo on assisting someone with motive of being irrational which will be naturally cause harm to oneself. The first reason stated that all suicidal individuals lacked the ability to make a rational decision, and the second reason is a normative one which can be checked. The article concentrates on the second reason about this paternalistic contention against the authorization of physician assisted suicide due to the reason the one’s decision to end one’s life would be an irrational. Wittwer demonstrates that this reason could be explained in two ways, one’s ability to choose between rational and irrational, or to commit suicide. Using the reasoning about how physician assisted suicide are either rational or irrational could be used as a problem. forbidden and, therefore, ought not to be legalized cannot rest on that premise.