Assisted Suicide Should Not Be Legalized

A loved one gets diagnosed with a terminally ill disease and they are given a couple of options and one of them is assisted suicide, what do you think? Would you want them to end their life even if they are told they only have 5 months to live but maybe they get care from the doctor and live for 5 more years? What would you want them to do, just remember if they end their life you will never speak to them again and you will always wonder if you could have had more good memories with them. With a decision this tough it’s hard to decide what should happen but the patient should choose what is best for them not what is best for its family, but if they get care from the doctor and manage the symptoms they could more than likely live longer and have more good times with loved ones. Now imagine doctors having the power to kill their patients with medicine like a pill, if a loved one gets diagnosed the doctor could just automatically think to the assisted …show more content…
Yes sadly it can happen and when it does it can be a long term effect on people. A guy named David was diagnosed to only live for three months and he seriously considered doing the assisted suicide, he luckily was convinced not to and twenty-three years later he is still alive (Finlay). Could you imagine if he would have decided to end his life? He would have missed all his children’s first and last day of school, any family events, and birthdays. He would have never seen another day but instead he decided to live it out and now he gets to watch his children grow up. Studies show that doctors misdiagnose fatal illnesses about 20% of the time which means millions of people are being treated for the wrong disease. Even if they do have the right prognosis doctor’s sometime wait too long to realize that the treatments are failing (Sulmasy) and this is where doctors can up their quality of care to their