Physician-assisted suicide influences each human being to end their life when they want, where they want, and how they want. Society needs to acknowledge that their illness is their own and they need to respect someone else for their choice.
The right to die should be a fundamental freedom to each person. Every patient is given three years to take the lethal dose. Many patients have benefited from the three years’ time to take it. In those three years, patients qualified for Medicare or they became no longer was in the same amount of pain as they were before (Ne’eman). Also during those three years, patients got the attention they were seeking. Besides the ill, 90% of people who were on hospice or in mental institutions felt like they were burdens (Newman). In that time, people’s minds might change about their final choice. But they see themselves as a hurt dear in pain and looking for a way to end the pain. Richard E. Walton says so in The Mercy Argument, The Mercy Argument battles for euthanasia patients to have the right to do what they feel is right for them. Walton also attempts to help society try to understand their wish by giving examples of real life examples. Walton explains, “To facilitate philosophical scrutiny one of the principal