Fighting a terminal illness is hard for a person to experience especially since there are many devastating hardships that come with it. In the Right-to-Die Debate it argues on if people should have the choice to die with dignity and whether or not assisted suicide and the use of Euthanasia should be legal. An article states, “While 58 percent of Americans support physician-assisted suicide, 69 percent back the right to "end patient's life by painless means," showing that the people of the United States are having a hard time agreeing with the limitations on assisted suicide (2). Assisted Suicide should be legal in every state to allow someone living with a life threatening disease to feel more content on his or her passing. One reason why assisted …show more content…
Living with diseases like cancer, Alzheimer’s, or intense infection there is no control over one’s body, so it undeniable that suffering from pain physically and mentally is a major outcome from it. With the pain that comes with illness eventually takes a toll on the patient’s body leaving them weak and dependable on others. An article written by Sharon Kirkey states, “Others who have delivered a lethal injection say it is not about stopping a heart beating, but about euthanizing suffering. "When I've done it, I've never felt like I was killing someone, that's why I don't like the word 'killed,'" Dr. Rob Jonquiere, former chief executive of the Dutch Right to Die Society,” (1). Dr. Rob Jonquiere has explained that he does not feel guilty of the death of any of his patients because he is doing his job by eliminating all of the suffering by his patient’s request. The Right-to-Die Debate is beneficial because it is providing the ill patients with a platform to make others cognizant on how going through severe amounts of pain is one of the many difficult challenges that comes with being terminally