Physician-assisted suicide should be legalized. A reason for legalizing physician-assisted suicide is by the fact that lengthening life of a suffering, terminally ill person is pointless, and they should be allowed to end life to diminish suffering. Van den Haag expresses this ideal, "we will, at last, allow individuals to control their lifespan within the boundaries set by nature and we will reduce or eliminate the immense undeserved suffering to which hitherto we have sentenced so many innocent people" (van den Haag, 4). There will be those who oppose and argue that "the effective administration of palliative care should become the foundation for providing a more dignified
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