Should Physician Assisted Suicide Be Legal Everywhere To Terminally Ill Patients?
The two articles I picked are based on assisted suicide and tell the pros and cons of assisted suicide, both side have very valid reasons but I believe that physician assisted suicide should be legal everywhere to terminally ill patients.
Should terminally ill patients be able to have a doctor terminate their life?
I believe that this should be available to terminally ill patients. It is their life and they should get to choose how they want to deal with their life. A quote that supports my claim is, "It’s my life. I should have the right to take my life when that seems like the proper and best thing to do. Suicide isn’t illegal. Doctors control the means—drugs that end life painlessly". This quote supports my claim because it explains that it is that person's life and they should have control over it. Another quote that supports my claim is, "Or consider people with Alzheimer's disease.
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A quote that supports my claim is, "Supporters of legislation legalizing assisted suicide claim that all persons have a moral right to choose freely what they will do with their lives as long as they inflict no harm on others. This right of free choice includes the right to end one's life when we choose." This supports my claim because it states that every has a right to do what they want with their life. Another quote that supports my claim is, "For most people, the right to end one's life is a right they can easily exercise. But there are many who want to die, but whose disease, handicap, or condition renders them unable to end their lives in a dignified manner." My second quote supports my claim because it states that because of the procedures that someone has to go through, it can make it more difficult to meet someone