There are two different types of assisted suicide, one more ethical than the other. Voluntary euthanasia …show more content…
The first reason is that it is a way to end the suffering of many people who are terminally ill. Terminally ill is defined as “A person who is sick and is diagnosed with a disease that will take their life.” (Investopedia, 1). These people are going to die either way and are in pain. Some may only have months to live and want to go out on their own terms, not by the hand of their disease. This should be an option, you cannot just tell sick and hurting people that they cannot do this because if they really wanted to take their own live they will find other ways of doing it. Making physician assisted suicide legal will at least give them the option to kill themselves in a more peaceful and personable way. If you were in the shoes of the people thinking about doing this don’t you think you would at least want the chance to make your own choices, rather than having the government eliminating one of your only options. Assisted suicide should be legalized to give the terminally ill an