They shouldn’t be forced to live in misery
What if a cure is found within the time they would have lived? If a cure hasn’t been found in decades, what makes you think one will be found in a couple of months?
It is another case of pro-life or pro-choice, allow people to take their own life or have them suffer through the pain ridden months that will eventually led to their death? Though this time we are not dealing with developing fetuses who cannot make their own decisions, no. We are dealing with people who understand what they are choosing for themselves. It is a controversial issue as suicide as is is seen as something that can be helped and prevented, but the same rule do not apply to assisted-suicide. These people are given months to live and many endure excruciating pain they no longer wish to deal with. Other patients do not see the point of staying alive as it only pile on more medical bills for their that only extend a dying person’s life instead of curing them. Terminally ill patients should be allowed to die on their own terms because it is their body and their choice, they shouldn’t be forced to live in misery, and the chances that a cure is found before they pass is unlikely. …show more content…
Unlike suicide, these patients do not have another choice as their time is limited. People have unalienable rights and one of them is life, it is their choice on whether they want to keep their life or take it away. People will do what they want either way, with or without the help of a doctor. “More than 300 terminally ill people in England a year could be taking their own lives because there is no possibility of assisted suicide..”(Bingham). The ways in which they took their own lives is not identified but it could have not been less painful than taking the medications used in assisting