Persuasive Essay On Benefits Of Physician Assisted Suicide

Death is scary and no one wants to die, but the scarier thing is that human beings cannot choose how they want to end their own lives. No person can decide at any moment that they want to takes pills that will end their life. Every person has to go through guidelines and procedures (“The right to die: Benefits of physician-assisted suicide”). Dying with dignity should be legal in all fifty states. Not every person would be able to take part in a physican assisted suicide. “The current eligibility guidelines to be able to request a prescription for lethal medication in Oregon are that the patient must be 18 years old, an Oregon resident, able to make sound medical decisions and diagnosed with a terminal disease with six or fewer months to live” (“The right to die: Benefits of physician-assisted suicide”). As you can see, choosing to die through prescription medication isn't a decision any patient can make spur of the moment. “Most americans believe in end-of-life options” as well as I do (Romano), “A Gallup poll last May found nearly 70% of all americans agree”( Death with dignity’ laws offer compassionate option”).

“No one wants to die, but everyone deserves the right to die with his or her own means” (“The right to die: Benefits of physician-assisted suicide”). By allowing a patient the option to stop suffering their lives and loved ones lives will be set as ease. “In what universe does it make sense for a government to insist that a person suffer in front of their loved ones, when a compassionate alternative is available?” (Romano). They government should not even be able to stop a human for suffering when we do the same humane thing to our