In just the last few decades, medical science has reached new heights. Cures, treatments, and surgeries that were a pipe dream years ago are now happening on a daily basis. With the well-advanced technology and modern research facilities, physicians are humanity's best servants. But some things are inevitable. Because not every ailment is curable, there are still some matters that remain out of control. Medical benefits have permitted life beyond what nature might have allowed, but are not always in the best interest of the suffering patient with no hope of recovery.
Few states in America have legalized physician-aided death or death with dignity. In the last few years, this issue has become a more pressing subject of rights and morals.
Quality of life is reflected as the physical, psychological, social, and spiritual domains of health that influence an individual's experiences, beliefs, expectations, and perceptions. The entire purpose of living a quality life ends when the person cannot live it wholly or happily with their life physically and mentally. Patients with terminal illness encounter a situation that’s associated with such profound physical and emotional distress that patients face the dissolution of their soul.
The way of life of a dying person drastically changes after surgery and treatments. There is a vast difference between treating pain and bearing the pain, and adverse effects from medical or surgical interventions may be worse than the injury itself. Except for the pain, there are things like mental damage, emotional disturbance, social withdrawal, and the spiritual gap from which the patient suffers the most during an illness. Most terminally ill patients reported a desire to keep control over their own end-of-life care decisions as long as possible and want to minimize the physical and emotional burden of their death on a loved one. Psychological reasons dominate in shaping one's will to live early on, while physical concerns take significance as death approaches.
Most of the time physicians are not able to connect with the patient over mental issues and pain. The right to die act helps such terminally ill patients end their suffering. It enables the patient to die with dignity without worrying about losing their mental and physical capacity. It helps the patient's family to manage in such a crucial time and helps them bid a last farewell to their loved one. It also helps reduce a vast amount of medical expenses. Sometimes, patients can even donate their organs and body parts to save someone else's life. When there is no hope for relief, patients can legally end their sufferings, with the help of a physician, reducing the amount of pain and suffering that they would endure.
Society needs to stop associating the end of life with spiritual terms instead of logical thinking. Overall, death with dignity provides more benefits to patients and their families instead of prolonged suffering and mental destress.
