In most countries across the world, physician-assisted suicide is highly prohibited. The suffering experienced by terminally ill patients towards their end of life constitutes significant anxiety (Dintcho, 2020). These patients go through various emotional distress such as becoming a burden to their loved ones, their pain, and the loss of their quality of life. It is these aspects that contribute significantly to a patient's consideration for physician-assisted suicide.

The debate on assisted suicide has increased over the years. Many perceive it as unethical as it compromises aspects such as beliefs, values, and competence. The decisions also have an impact on a physician's professional standards. Nonetheless, in this case, what is right or wrong becomes a bit complicated as a patient on the verge of death and knows they have a limited life span should be given a chance to decide on whether to stop or continue living and wait for their end (Kamm, 2015). Having an opportunity to choose a dignified death would feel comforting for someone in pain and knows that they will not survive with or without medical intervention. Hence, physician-assisted suicide emerges as ethically permissible as it ends the suffering and agony of a patient.

Those with an opposing view feel that the mandate to end a life resonates with no one else but God. on the other hand, no one should suffer only to die miserably. Assisted suicide is an approach that alleviates family burdens such as financial ones (Dintcho, 2020). The families have already concluded that no medical intervention can cure their loved one and, as such, no need to continue spending on a dead course.

In conclusion, if the decision to end life is voluntarily a patient approach, doctors should not reprimand. An individual in pain should be allowed to decide on how to end their agony. Since it has become a challenge to decide on the ethical aspect of physician-assisted suicide, the government should adopt regulations that will help control these acts to avoid an instance where an individual could take advantage of the same.

Organ Donation and Transplantation

The issue I selected is organ donation and transplantation. Organ donation by living donors saves lives, improves transplantation outcomes under specific circumstances, and minimizes the recipient waiting moments. Organ donation is significant because it improves the opportunities for clients with no living donors to get organs from deceased donors. However, organ donation brings about several ethical questions that are not yet fully addressed.  Organ transplantation is one of the best-known ways of saving lives since it offers individuals a second chance of living. I chose this topic since it is something that is frequently occurring in the present world.

Some of the ethical differences brought about by this act include that it violates the traditional belief "cause no harm." To offer a donation from one person to another, it will require them to operate on one person to get the organ that they will transfer to the other person with a non-functional organ. This activity involves removing a functional organ from one individual to implant the organ to another person, where one patient benefits by improving their health with a better organ than they had before. In contrast, the other person sacrifices a functional organ to the other party of interest (Liverman & Childress, 2016). Sometimes, organ donation might be out of emotional connections which when the connection is over, the donor might regret the activity since it involves other risk factors. Some people claim that it is not correct because it is like creating life again, which is not religiously correct.

This activity only occurs with the agreement and the consent of the donor. Hence, it is not ethically wrong since the donor is doing so from a willing heart to save another person's life. As much as it causes pain to both the patient, it has greater good. Most of the time, donations occur where the donors are related to the patient in need of an organ (Ball et al., 2020). Most of the time, it is advisable that the donor comes from family members or close-related people. Organ donation might also happen when one gives out their donor when they are willing to save other people's lives, and hence they give out their organ (Ahmed et al., 2020). Organ donation is one of the best ways to save a life since most of these transplanted organs do not have a substitute, so either the patient gets an organ or ends up dying.