Visualize a woman on her death bed hooked up to at least ten machines with the diagnoses of a terminal disease that will gradually lead her to suffocate and die. The women has a month to live and the last month she will live will be the excruciating pain. All the women desires is to leave this world with self-respect and dignity. Her last request is to die a painless controlled death that she will control to every last detail. However, people have in our society have their own ideas about assisted suicide and euthanasia. It has been labeled immoral and will cause more harm than good. Terminally ill patients should determine when and how they want their lives to end. Therefore, everyone should have the right to assisted suicide and euthanasia.
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According to deathpenalty.org (help) the United States federal criminal justice system is authorized to use the death penalty as a form discipline in thirty-one states. According to Andrew Walter reporter for Points of View, a jury system and electing officials decide the fate of an individual. Pregnant women have the right to choose whether they can keep or end their pregnancy because of our government. Average citizens could decide life or death of an individual at all costs. This demonstrates that in the American culture can choose for others, but not for oneself. Although these average citizens are determining criminal and fetus lives but they have no authority over their own life in extreme cases when they have a terminal illness. This denial cannot stand any longer to preserve the dignity of human life. The legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia needs to be implemented into every state In the United States to provide a safe dignified way for terminally ill individuals to end their …show more content…
According to Anne Stokely reporter for Points of View, A Harris poll in December 2001 showed support for both euthanasia and assisted suicide by a 2-1 majority, and a 1994 Gallup poll indicated that 65 percent of Americans were in favor of allowing doctors to help terminally ill patients end their suffering. Also, 44.5 percent of the physicians surveyed in a 2001 by Baylor University supported legalizing assisted suicide and euthanasia. It is believed that religious views and political orientations influenced the physicians who surveyed. Physicians that opposed assisted suicide and euthanasia believed in religions that didn’t believe in such actions, 45 percent of Catholic physicians, 32 percent of Protestant physicians, and 16 percent of Jewish physicians opposed. In the United States over half of the population believes that assisted suicide and euthanasia should be legalized. Some individual’s religious views or political orientations cloud their judgement. In the United States of America there are laws separating church and state, therefore society needs to put religious views to the side and bring out the facts of the
According to deathpenalty.org (help) the United States federal criminal justice system is authorized to use the death penalty as a form discipline in thirty-one states. According to Andrew Walter reporter for Points of View, a jury system and electing officials decide the fate of an individual. Pregnant women have the right to choose whether they can keep or end their pregnancy because of our government. Average citizens could decide life or death of an individual at all costs. This demonstrates that in the American culture can choose for others, but not for oneself. Although these average citizens are determining criminal and fetus lives but they have no authority over their own life in extreme cases when they have a terminal illness. This denial cannot stand any longer to preserve the dignity of human life. The legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia needs to be implemented into every state In the United States to provide a safe dignified way for terminally ill individuals to end their …show more content…
According to Anne Stokely reporter for Points of View, A Harris poll in December 2001 showed support for both euthanasia and assisted suicide by a 2-1 majority, and a 1994 Gallup poll indicated that 65 percent of Americans were in favor of allowing doctors to help terminally ill patients end their suffering. Also, 44.5 percent of the physicians surveyed in a 2001 by Baylor University supported legalizing assisted suicide and euthanasia. It is believed that religious views and political orientations influenced the physicians who surveyed. Physicians that opposed assisted suicide and euthanasia believed in religions that didn’t believe in such actions, 45 percent of Catholic physicians, 32 percent of Protestant physicians, and 16 percent of Jewish physicians opposed. In the United States over half of the population believes that assisted suicide and euthanasia should be legalized. Some individual’s religious views or political orientations cloud their judgement. In the United States of America there are laws separating church and state, therefore society needs to put religious views to the side and bring out the facts of the