Proposal To Legalize Physician Assisted Suicide

Terminally ill patients should have the option to end their suffering with a quick compassionate death. Euthanasia also known as assisted suicide, is a practice that should be offered to patients who are terminally ill but in most countries it is illegal. Many people are against the practice of Euthanasia while others are in favor of this practice however both sides have very valid points. The methods used to terminated a patients life are endless but many use methods that are painful due to the illegal status of euthanasia. Across the country there is many proposals to legalize physician-assisted suicide proposals in which I am in favor of.
Proponents of euthanasia argue that it should be legal for patients to have the option to relief themselves of suffering and unbearable pain. Those patients should be offered to terminate their lives for various reasons one being the right to die. Every human being has many rights and one being the right to die if one wants to end their life they should have that option. If the patient is tired of fighting a battle with an illness, tired of …show more content…
Most state that this act should continue illegal because it will authorize doctors to terminate patients life’s upon their own evaluations. “We always listen to the patient. We never tell a patient: 'This is what you have to do.’ You have no choice”, states Lonny Shavelson a proponent of Euthanasia. If assisted suicide became legal this would be an option not a mandatory action doctors will propose this option but will not talk patients into choosing this option. The practice of assisted suicide is very common although it is illegal, with this being said people should take into consideration that it is better to legalize the act of Euthanasia and make the patients suffer less and have a quick compassionate death rather than the illegal practices done by