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The Pros And Cons Of Assisted Suicide

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Albert Einstein once wrote, “Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.” He believed that living for others was essential to every person’s lifestyle, but what if you had been living with a terminal disease and every breath you took was painful? Would you let life take its natural course or consider having a physician assist you in medical suicide? Would your religion allow it? The legality of the issue changes on where you are but the morals and logic people have are the same everywhere you go. Assisted suicide should be legal but with very restrictive guidelines about who can qualify and how it occurs. Firstly, in most countries assisted suicide is neither legal nor illegal but in this limbo of in between because the people cannot come to a consensus. In places where euthanasia is not accepted, people who help others with euthanasia …show more content…

Before more and more people start going behind the government’s backs, authorities should “regulate the practice and guard against abuses, while punishing the real offenders” (Smith 19). People argue that if the wide acceptance of euthanasia spreads too vastly, there will be a “much greater impact than is generally realized on our society”, but with stringent laws and police enforcers in every city, any violators will be caught and punished as an example to anyone thinking about helping people with euthanasia in a unsafe non-hospital environment (Kamisar 19). That is to say, court cases have been turned down time after time, but there’s a reason they keep popping up; if people really believe that death is the best medical action for them, they will fight for what they want. It should not be

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