Assisted Suicide
Thinking about your deathbed is not a pleasant thought, but we know it's a day we are closer to as every second passes by. Whether you believe in God and life as a gift from him, or science and life as a random happening, you know your time is limited. The beauty of this limit is that everything in it is unpredictable. Because nothing is definite until the time for it comes, we always keep hope. We tend to see the glass half full rather than half empty. However in times of grief and physical pain we see only the empty. The biggest pain some of us go through is when we are terminally ill. Some can endure it, most can't. Canada has proposed a bill for the people who can’t endure the pain. Assisted suicide is a big discussion taking place these days, with 85% of the Canadian population in agreement and thinking of it as "dying with dignity". As prideful it sounds when making your dramatic exit out of this world, this bill is a low act for Canada to make a law. What barriers will the government break down if it turns in to law and what will we be stating as a society?
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If this turns into law, as a county, we are stating suicide is the answer to suffering. In the minds of the younger generation they are shown when suffering comes, suicide is the response. This bill it contradicts suicide prevention. With the offer of suicide to a patient, doctors are indirectly telling the patient that their life is useless to continue. Instead of providing the patient with hope and words of comfort, we offer death. A patient is never in healthy physiological stage to see their life beyond the point they are at. With the inability to see the future how can a doctor confidently state that the illness will kill the patient in the end