Death By Choice:
Today in America many people dying from a terminal illness are denied the fundamental right to choose a peaceful dignified way to end their lives. Our laws state terminally ill people can choose a lingering death by refusing to eat, or by refusing treatment that keeps them barely alive, or by refusing to be hooked up to respirators. But the law does not allow terminally ill people to choose a peaceful, painless death that their doctors can easily provide. People who are terminally ill, who feel that their lives are not worth living because of an intractable pain and/or loss of dignity, and/or loss of capability, who repeatedly and actively ask for help in committing suicide, and who are of sound mind and not suffering from depression, should be allowed to choose how and when they will die. A terminally ill person may start to feel like a burden financially and emotionally to love ones because of the extra care and cost incurred. On t
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Approximate Word count = 660
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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