Life Is Worth Dying Research Paper

Having the choice to decide what you want in life like pursuing your dream career, getting married, or simple choices like cutting your hair short and dying it; is what gives you the power to take control over your life. So what would happen when your body is conquered by a terminal illness and all you could do is wait until the day your body gives up for complete because the government said it is forbidden to take your own life? Once that power is taken away from you, you become enslaved in your own self-destructive body. Those pain killers, chemo, or hope that things will be better are no longer suppressing your agony and suffering. What then? Time is not on your side the more you allow the illness to take over, the less control you have …show more content…
But they are. People who are disabled or facing life 's end can be cared for in ways that allow them to feel respected, worthy and valued” (Byock). However, when is depending on people to do everyday tasks like cleaning and showering you a dignified manner. Your whole life you are taught to become independent, but when something out of your control makes you become depending, it is losing your morals and values to yourself. Letting a terminal disease have the last say in how you should have a slow and painful death is giving up on self worth. They may also say that, refusing life is refusing God and suffering is all part of God’s glorious plan (Ahn). On the other hand, many believers say, “As a Christian I believe God is love … and the God of love would not want any of God’s creature to suffer undignified situations, especially at the end of life. Death is not the final stage for humans but deliverance to God” (Lopez). Lastly, just because you decide to die peacefully and painless will not change your religious …show more content…
Our lives are our responsibilities not the governments. Becoming a burden to those around you will just take a negative toll on you. There is no need to suffer on the few days you have to live, sorrow will be your companion until you no longer feel pain, but you feel the happiness from your life ending choice. I have experienced the sorrow and anguish with a family member who passed away from a terminal illness. My dog Nala, a West Highlander mix died from parvo, i remember crying hoping we will get through it. I would call her name and she would just look at me with such pain in her eyes, that’s when I knew that I had to stop putting myself first in this situation, she was the main one that was suffering from the illness. I then decided she will no longer suffer and I think with the veterinarian euthanizing her was the best decision I have ever made for both, her and I. Perhaps, people would have to be under the circumstances of those who decide that enough is enough with suffering, to understand and maybe if they would put themselves in that situation they would have a different perspective. We are responsible of our lives; if the last wish is to end our life then it should be an