I believe that Sue Rodriguez is a strong and independent women. Rodriguez wanted a choice. She said the time and manner of her death shouldn’t be decided by her disease or the law. If she were incapable of taking her own life, she insisted it should be legal for a doctor to provide her with the means to do so. She made the choice to sacrifice, the sacrifice she made in order to make the change which was spending the little time she had left of her life to her wish to be granted and to ensure that other people had the right to an assisted suicide when someone has a terminal illness. This was a problematic case but was important to our society today because now we have the to right to refuse treatment or surgery when having a certain illness
