In 1997, the state of Oregon began to allow doctors to prescribe lethal drugs to terminally ill patients to peacefully end their lives. Eighteen years later, on October 5th, 2015, governor Jerry Brown of California signed a measure allowing assisted suicide. Besides Oregon & California, Washington, Vermont, and Montana are onboard as well. However, five consensual states isn’t enough. Patients across the country should have the freedom to choose not to go through a draw-out, unpeaceful, and painful death, nor should be forced to put their families through it. The sick shouldn't have to watch their family go into financial debt due to expensive treatments that do not give permanent results. All US states should allow physicians to administer fatal drugs to sane patients that are suffering from definite terminal diseases in an effort to tranquilly die.
Freedom is a nationwide right. Dying patients still carry this freedom, so they should be able to have the option of assisted suicide, as pitiful as it may sound. Governor Jerry Brown reflected on his decision to sign the bill; “In the end, I was left to reflect on what I would want in the face of my own death, I do not know what I would do if I
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Block, 2000). Susan suggests that, besides the patient, medical procedures put an enormous amount of emotional pain and suffering on their families. If you contemplate it, you can imagine how terrible it must be to already be in emotional and/or physical pain, but to watch your family cope with the grief. Assembly woman Susan Eggman, a former hospice worker who wrote the assisted suicide act in California revealed, “...it’s not an occasion of feeling joy over a bill that is signed; I know the peace this will bring some families today and in the future.”