Forty four states in America prohibit the use of euthanasia, or assisted suicide, under homicide laws. Year by year the cause gains speed and people more and more come to accept it as morally sound and a human right to die with dignity. People who argue against assisted suicide claim that it devalues human life and limits bodily autonomy, however, it allows for terminally ill or old people to not have to live out incredibly painful lives leading to an overall happier population as seen in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Many people who support assisted suicide often draw comparisons to when owners put their animals down, on the other hand, people who oppose euthanasia say this argument degrades human life by making such a comparison and
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Doctors and family force a drawn out death with pointless medicine and other even more painful treatments, when the case could, in a better society, have a legal strategy to look through with a set list of criteria. In cases such as Cramer’s, she needed “to find a respected doctor who would” administer lethal doses of a drug after determining that she suffered “from a terminal illness and was in unbearable pain” and then her and her physician “had to prove that she was of sound and informed mind”(Cramer). With such a set of standards he proved that was of sound mind but she knew she had grown weary of treatments and constant pain where she only be half with her family and half high on painkillers. She was looking at years and years of unbearable pain living much longer than she should ever have to endure just to keep people feeling self-gratified by not killing her even though she would prefer otherwise. A man suffering from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis(ALS), a progressive, inhibitive disease, said that when he “can't tie [his] bow-tie, tell a funny story, walk [his] dog, kiss someone special, [he'll] know that life is over. It's time to be gone"(Ball). He knows that he will not have the ability to function through life and will need all sorts of help to complete basic tasks, some being humiliating. He knows that life is precious but he will eventually lose the ability to do the things that make life worth
Doctors and family force a drawn out death with pointless medicine and other even more painful treatments, when the case could, in a better society, have a legal strategy to look through with a set list of criteria. In cases such as Cramer’s, she needed “to find a respected doctor who would” administer lethal doses of a drug after determining that she suffered “from a terminal illness and was in unbearable pain” and then her and her physician “had to prove that she was of sound and informed mind”(Cramer). With such a set of standards he proved that was of sound mind but she knew she had grown weary of treatments and constant pain where she only be half with her family and half high on painkillers. She was looking at years and years of unbearable pain living much longer than she should ever have to endure just to keep people feeling self-gratified by not killing her even though she would prefer otherwise. A man suffering from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis(ALS), a progressive, inhibitive disease, said that when he “can't tie [his] bow-tie, tell a funny story, walk [his] dog, kiss someone special, [he'll] know that life is over. It's time to be gone"(Ball). He knows that he will not have the ability to function through life and will need all sorts of help to complete basic tasks, some being humiliating. He knows that life is precious but he will eventually lose the ability to do the things that make life worth