Editing Assisted suicide (section)

===Arguments for===
Arguments in support of assisted suicide include
* reduction of human suffering<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wright |first=Oliver |date=2024-11-28 |title=The arguments for and against the assisted dying bill |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/assisted-dying-bill-vote-arguments-for-against-kh00tmvvl |access-date=2024-12-19 |website=www.thetimes.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/david-cameron-assisted-dying-bill-backing-5swzr5g36|title=David Cameron: Why I'm now backing assisted dying|first=David|last=Cameron|date=27 November 2024|website=www.thetimes.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdd088r6j28o|title=Ex-prime minister David Cameron backs assisted dying bill|date=27 November 2024|website=BBC News}}</ref> 
* compassion
* respect for patient autonomy
* personal liberty
* equal treatment of terminally ill patients on and off life support
* transparency<ref>{{cite web |vauthors=Starks H |title=Physician Aid-in-Dying |url=https://depts.washington.edu/bioethx/topics/pad.html |website=Physician Aid-in-Dying: Ethics in Medicine |publisher=University of Washington School of Medicine |access-date=29 April 2019 |archive-date=2 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190502054649/https://depts.washington.edu/bioethx/topics/pad.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* ethics of responsibility<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|vauthors=Baril A|date=2020|title=Suicidism: A new theoretical framework to conceptualize suicide from an anti-oppressive perspective|url=https://dsq-sds.org/article/view/7053/5711|journal=Disability Studies Quarterly|volume=40|issue=3|pages=1–41|doi=10.18061/dsq.v40i3.7053|doi-access=free|access-date=2 January 2021|archive-date=12 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201212075202/https://dsq-sds.org/article/view/7053/5711|url-status=live}}</ref>

====Reasons given by people for seeking assisted suicide====
In 2022 in the Oregon program, the most frequently reported end-of-life concerns were 
* decreasing ability to participate in activities that made life enjoyable (89%)
* loss of autonomy (86%) 
* loss of dignity (62%)
* burden on family/caregivers (46%)
* losing control of bodily functions (44%)
* inadequate pain control, or concern about it (31%)
* financial implications of treatment (6%)<ref name="auto3">Oregon Death with Dignity Act 2022 data summary https://www.oregon.gov/oha/PH/PROVIDERPARTNERRESOURCES/EVALUATIONRESEARCH/DEATHWITHDIGNITYACT/Documents/year25.pdf</ref> 
Previous years had seen similar factors.<ref>The three most frequently mentioned end-of-life concerns reported by Oregon residents who took advantage of the Death With Dignity Act in 2015 were: decreasing ability to participate in activities that made life enjoyable (96.2%), loss of [[autonomy]] (92.4%), and loss of [[dignity]] (75.4%).{{cite web|title=Oregon Death with Dignit Act: 2015 data SUMMARY|url=https://public.health.oregon.gov/ProviderPartnerResources/EvaluationResearch/DeathwithDignityAct/Documents/year18.pdf|website=Oregon.gov|publisher=Oregon Health Authority|access-date=4 October 2016|archive-date=17 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170517094212/http://public.health.oregon.gov/ProviderPartnerResources/EvaluationResearch/DeathwithDignityAct/Documents/year18.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> 
 
Pain has mostly not been reported as the primary motivation for seeking assisted suicide in the United States.<ref name="Attitudes2016">{{cite journal | vauthors = Emanuel EJ, Onwuteaka-Philipsen BD, Urwin JW, Cohen J | title = Attitudes and Practices of Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide in the United States, Canada, and Europe | journal = JAMA | volume = 316 | issue = 1 | pages = 79–90 | date = July 2016 | pmid = 27380345 | doi = 10.1001/jama.2016.8499 }}</ref>