Death With Dignity
Voluntary Euthanasia is defined as the termination of the life of a patient to avoid a great amount of suffering with their consent. Voluntary Euthanasia/Physician aid in dying (PAD), or assisted suicide, is commonly used for people experiencing a terminal illness and/or in great pain and misery. Euthanasia is a very controversial topic because a number of people believe that it can be beneficial while others believe it is just morally wrong. For the reasons that Euthanasia is perceived as corrupt, it is illegal in a large number of places around the world. Regardless of the controversy behind the issue everyone should have a right to physician-assisted suicide. The only way that this problem can be resolved is for people
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Some examples are, “God does not condone suicide” (Anti), or that “euthanasia is the start of a slippery slope that leads to involuntary euthanasia and the killing of people who are thought to be undesirable” (Anti), or that “accepting euthanasia accepts that some lives (those of the disabled or sick) are worth less than others” (Anti). All of these arguments are understandable but none are valid when the patient is considered. Neil Godbot, writer for Prince George Citizen, said it best when he stated, “We refuse to recognize that the idea of putting down human beings preserves our human dignity, instead of disgracing it. We refuse to surrender control to the hands of the persons doing the living - and dying. We refuse to take responsibility for our own destiny” (Godbout). A person should be trusted to make their own decisions regarding their life and death. Opposers of physician assisted suicide are not considering the patients and the things they went through when it was decided that euthanasia was the last important life decision that they would ever make. This patient has been thrust into a situation that they have no control over, but the one thing that they have control over, their death, is not really a choice that they can make if they are not living in one of the places where physician assisted suicide is