Dignified Death 42% of Americans have had a friend or relative suffer from a terminal illness or coma In the last 5 years.A terminal illness is a disease that cannot be cured or adequately treated. If a person is sick or in pain with no known treatment, should the person have the choice if they want to go on or not? Assisted suicide or "death with dignity" is now legal in 6 states. Some people believe, however, that assisted suicide is not, in fact, a dignified death. Some terminally ill patients may still have hope, but the ill should be in control of his or her own future, not hope. Assisted suicide exists, and it is slowly growing. Carl Wellman, a legal rights assisted suicide defender, claims that "assisted suicide is now legal in 6 …show more content…
Denial (counterargument) is one of the many steps of dealing with death as Cozzolino, Blackie, and Meyers explain as they state why they feel that assisted suicide should be and stay illegal. The authors talk about the difficulties people face with death in their article. "Thinking about death is not pleasant,” the authors clearly state. “When given a choice to actively contemplate morality or to deny death all together, most people would choose the latter option," The authors assume. This is one of many reasons stated that people may not even want the option of assisted suicide; with death comes denial. The authors continue to explain the impact of death on humans and how we tend to ignore it all together as a result of denial. If people have no choice, then they cannot choose death which keeps them from feeling the denial of feeling as thought the death was on their hands for there even being such an option. However, denial is a common emotion that people experience many times throughout their life time. It is natural to feel denial, especially in a time of grief. Maria Shriver inspirationally quotes "Denying what you feel will not make it go away. It ensures that it will never get resolved." This relates to the idea of denial with terminal illness. Just because someone denies that their friend, loved one, or even themselves, has a terminal illness does not mean it will get any better, it will only make you or others feel worse about the