Physician assisted suicide’s legality is not up to those who do not wish to utilize it. If a person is enduring enough suffering, then they will find some form of exit to escape that pain. Whether it be, through, “…gross violence of a gunshot or a jump off a bridge”, PAD is the most humane way of ending suffering, yet it still is an illegal act in most of the United States. All that we ask is, “…for a dignified way to die” (3). Not only is the right to die under the care of a licensed and medically trained physician necessary and a given right to self-choice, but also it is the most moral way of doing so. A recent study provided information as to what percentages of ALS patients would consider PAD, and
Of 140 eligible persons with ALS, 100 (71 percent) agreed to
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As each and every citizen is granted the right to live, if this established government be for the people and total equality, then each and every being should, too, be presented with the fundamental right to end his or her life as they please as well. Within our nations founding documents can be found, “The right to self-determination is guaranteed by the “liberty” provision in the U.S. Constitution’s Due Process clauses. A terminally ill patient has the liberty to choose death by receiving a fatal prescription…”(Ball 4). Still yet, state legislatures in a majority of the 50 states have procrastinated to pass any form of response to the debate of PAD, so the victims of such diseases lay in agony, pleading to be relieved of this shell, in which “physical and mental capabilities cannot be restored, whose degenerating conditions cannot be reversed, and whose pain cannot be eliminated” continue to drone on, pleading for a savior (Andre, Velasquez 1). Not only are the conditions of patients simply unbearable to witness, the ever rising financial expenses of long term or permanent medical care can result in debt for the families that may never be