mentally competent, but deemed terminally ill, be allowed to engagein physician-assisted suicide? According to the

First Amendment of The Constitution of The United States, "one hasthe freedom to petition the government for a

redress of grievances." The Fourteenth Amendment states, "The Statecannot deprive any person of life, liberty or

property, without due process of law; nor deny any person within itsjurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." The

group believes that a terminally ill patient has the Constitutionalright to decide whether or not to end his or her life with

the help of a licensed medical doctor. There have been many cases overthe years where a terminally ill patient who is

mentally competent has made the choice to either partake in physician-assistedsuicide or euthanasia.

"Physician-assisted suicide occurs when the physician provides thepatient with the means and/or knowle

same year, a Missouri Court ruled that the feeding tube could be removedafter evidence that Cruzan would wish to

the virus in 1981 through a blood transfusion. "Some of the complicationshe is encountering from the AIDS virus are

government was setup to govern, not to rule with absolute power. Ifthe people were to keep silent about what they

a terminal illness, so severe that one is unable to function independently,life? The government says that it is. Liberty is

"Measure 16" may now be anticipated to prevent the law from being used"(http://www.rights.org/deathnet/open.

in a car accident and in what Doctor's called a vegetative state forseven years, could not end her treatment. Later that

take his own life with the aid of a doctor. Senior Judge S. JosephDavis, brought in from Seminole County, "found that

opinion in favor for the right to die, the government would have toattend to the peoples' wishes.

Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution entitles citizens of the UnitedStates of America t

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