Research Question: Is there a need to legalize assisted suicide in the United States based on the current needs of patients and their families?
The Broad Topic: Assisted Suicide. This topic relates to the field of medicine and the field of research on fundamental human rights. This research topic allows me to identify and determine current trends in the development of assisted suicide. It is necessary to consider not only the technical and professional-medical points of view but also to specify the consequences of this approach to protecting the rights of patients and families.
The Main Keywords: Assisted Suicide, Human Rights, Patient Safety.
In this topic, a specific question is posed, to which an answer is to be given using the relevant academical research availiable, conducting surveys and data analyses. Consequently, the result of this work will be the provision of studied data that reflect the overall picture of the opinions of both professional doctors and patients and their families. Research question is both fairly broad and narrow as it focuses on discussing a common problem, but in a specific population. This research topic is academically researchable since it represents the study of a rather acute phenomenon in the modern world. Several studies reflect both philosophical and medical ideas about the need for assisted suicide (Calati et al., 2021). Thus, they represent a serious scientific base that can become the foundation of this research work.
This research topic answers several fundamentally essential questions for the work, namely who? and where? The problem is dealt with regarding the significance of assisted suicide for patients and their families. The question itself will be considered in regard to the Us citizents of states with legal restriction of the practice since there are a number of states where this method is legal. Therefore, it is possible to consider different statistics and data in different states.
Reference
Calati, R., Olié, E., Dassa, D., Gramaglia, C., Guillaume, S., Madeddu, F., & Courtet, P. (2021). Euthanasia and assisted suicide in psychiatric patients: A systematic review of the literature. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 135, 153–173.