The agony, the suffering, the painful knowledge of knowing you are going to die with excruciating pain, with no say in what happens to them, as you just watch your time run out. Assisted suicide grants someone the choice of a life or death decision in a more ethical way. Assisted suicide and suicide are two different things. Suicide is where an individual takes his/her life in a manner that is referred to as being inhumane such as hanging or a gunshot. Assisted suicide is where a professional physician gives you a lethal dose of pills that you have to be able to swallow to end your life peacefully rather than suffering until your death. Today physician assisted suicide is legal in Montana, Oregon, Washington,Vermont, and recently California
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Allowing assisted suicide gives people the dignity, pride of having a say in deciding on how they want to go and people who suffer. It gives everyone an equal opportunity to opt of of their suffering if it is to become legalized. One lady’s Uncle Valentino passed away peacefully, but after several months of painful struggle after having both of his feet amputated. He suffered, he was not allowed to find a way out, he was bed ridden slowly drifting away. He was living like he was already dead. “If you have ever lost someone you loved to suicide, you know how very determined they can be” (Williams 3). As Williams states, people start taking their own lives inhumanely, whether it would be by hanging or a gunshot the suffering they carry is just unbearable to live with, so they find their own way out. This is not a safe or humane way to leave, which is why the choice should be legalized. Equal opportunity would be given if legalized because everyone would then have the option to decide what happens with their life. The state tells people how to die, society puts people in a job and tells them how to basically spend their money, pay taxes, and live with no consideration for individual choice (Jenkins 1). Society is controlling. People should have the ability to control at least whether they live or die and in the end it is their live and no one else 's, but their choice. Should anyone being able to have a choice in how they die be a question
Allowing assisted suicide gives people the dignity, pride of having a say in deciding on how they want to go and people who suffer. It gives everyone an equal opportunity to opt of of their suffering if it is to become legalized. One lady’s Uncle Valentino passed away peacefully, but after several months of painful struggle after having both of his feet amputated. He suffered, he was not allowed to find a way out, he was bed ridden slowly drifting away. He was living like he was already dead. “If you have ever lost someone you loved to suicide, you know how very determined they can be” (Williams 3). As Williams states, people start taking their own lives inhumanely, whether it would be by hanging or a gunshot the suffering they carry is just unbearable to live with, so they find their own way out. This is not a safe or humane way to leave, which is why the choice should be legalized. Equal opportunity would be given if legalized because everyone would then have the option to decide what happens with their life. The state tells people how to die, society puts people in a job and tells them how to basically spend their money, pay taxes, and live with no consideration for individual choice (Jenkins 1). Society is controlling. People should have the ability to control at least whether they live or die and in the end it is their live and no one else 's, but their choice. Should anyone being able to have a choice in how they die be a question