Assisted Suicide Argumentative Essay

Every day, whether it effects everyone’s day-to-day lives or not, a person somewhere in the world is diagnosed with an incurable disease. When the term ‘incurable disease’ is dropped into a conversation, most people’s mind usually goes straight to physical diseases. That person encounters seemingly endless amounts of pain daily with ideally no hope of getting well. Hospitals do everything within their power to try and make them at least feel comfortable, but more often than not, it is not enough. Terminally ill patients should have the right to make the decision about whether they want to continue living a life of pain, or if they would rather terminate their life while still in their right minds as themselves and with their families by their side. …show more content…
Family members do not always have the luxury of being with a dying love one all day everyday. No one truly knows the exact moment death will run it’s course. However, on the occasion that a patient applies for assisted suicide and is accepted, family members are awarded the opportunity to take as long as they please saying their peace and preparing themselves for the event. Included in a death study published by Routledge, they write, “her daughters made an effort to spend time with her, help her organize her affairs, write good-bye letters, and send gifts to lifelong friends…They were glad they had participated in her death.” The patient lived alone, so had the daughters not had been anticipating her death, they might not had been checking up on her daily and the patient could have been dead for days before someone found her. Assisted suicide is also a gateway to a life of nonexistent pain, something most terminally ill patients deal with