Though it may be an uncomfortable thing to know, there is something people are being denied. People are denied things everyday, what these people are being denied is uncomprehendable. Terminally ill, suffering people are being denied the right to end their suffering. They are forced to live each day in misery. Now, all these people want is to end their suffering. We could help by legalizing assisted suicide, helping to stop their pain. People have been forced to end their own lives, without proper medical help, some have had to have loved ones do it for them. As a result, they suffered legal consequences. I believe that terminally ill people, suffering major pain and discomfort, should be allowed to make the choice of assisted suicide.

Richard McIlory 71, whom whose suffering from lukiemia had become unbearable, had his wife help him commit suicide by giving him chocolate ice cream sprinkled with seconal tablets (C. Baron 1). Legalizing assisted suicide would prevent tragedies like this one from ever having to occur. Instead of one person suffering, the government makes it two. Sixty-six year old Dietrich Weithnery from Pennsylvania killed his wife Louise. She was s

He accepts people with little chance at a painless death, and he removes their pain.

Well, back in the days of yore, everything that was taught to anyone, professional or not, ethically wise is challenged today. Times change and people change with it. Along with the growth of the human race, society, and technology, creates new environments. It is a known fact that all living things adapt to their environment. They adapt allowing survival. It is an ancient cycle.

There are two more situations of suffering I will describe. When the debilitated nature of one's body severely undermines the quality of ones life, it is significant suffering. Such as people who have lost control of all his/her bodily functions, or is confined to bed for the rest of his/her life is surely in a state of persistent suffering. When suffering like this is impossible to relive, it undermines the value one feels on their life.

Weithman, Paul J. "Of Assisted Suicide and The Philosophers' Brief." Ethics April 1999 109:3

Oregon is the first and only state to legalize physician-assisted suicide in 1994. called the Death with Dignity Act, which passed with a forty-nine to fifty-one percent vote.

Other countries have found enough humanity to legalize assisted suicide, why can't we. The Netherlands has, as well as Switzerland.

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