Everyone Deserves To Die With Dignity By Anita Freeman Analysis

In “Everyone Deserves to Die with Dignity” Anita Freeman talks about the agony and struggle she and her sister went through after her sister was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. Freeman tells us that her sister Elizabeth Martin was diagnosed with cancer and had limited time to live here on earth. Freeman explains how she took on the responsibility of Elizabeth and tried to carry out her every wish. Freeman explains that Elizabeth’s biggest fear was dying in pain; this is when Freeman issued palliative care to come in. After multiple visits from palliative care, Freeman says that she knew this was not her sister’s plans. The medicine that was issued was not potent enough and would leave Elizabeth in excruciating pain. Freeman explains that by living in California, PAS was not yet legalized, so …show more content…
By having two doctors approved your diagnosis makes it hard because one doctor could be thinking and documenting one thing and the second doctor may have a different opinion than the first. By revoking these qualifications we are helping the patients seek emotional and psychical relief. i believe that pain comes in multiple forms and can be misdiagnosed or disregard when seeking professional psychian help. Overall by making patients meet this criterion we are rolling out all alternative topics as to why they are even seeking PAS. In the end if a person meets or does not meet the criteria it should be entirely up to the individual weather or not he or she wants to take their own life. I believe that we should keep the regulation that they need to be mentally sound but all the other criteria can ultimately be discarded because to me if you are mentally sound you are capable of making your own decisions and you know what treatment you would like to