Persuasive Essay On The Right To Die

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The Right to Die Suffering is not something that someone wants their loved ones to endure. Everyday there more and more people that are terminally ill and they are kept alive not because some of them choose to but because there is not a "right-to-die" statue where they live. Why continue to suffer when the person should have the right to end their pain and choose to not be a burden to their loved ones. I firmly believ when it comes to people that are in pain and suffer from a terminal illness that they be able to end the agonizing state that they are in. Each state should be allowed to have a statue in place for these people. "Since Hippocrates, doctors have taken their credo to be Do no harm. But what if a patient believes the treatment to keep them alive is more harmful than death?"(Sanburn, 2015) Now doctors are really lisyening to their patients and are now following through with some of the wishes that their patients are telling them. Doctors know that their is not a cure and they don't want to see them to continue to suffer on for agonizng days, months or even years. There is not one day that goes by that there isn't a news story about people choosing to take excessive amounts of drugs on a regular basis until one day they overdose. These …show more content…

So if we aget to choose all these things then we should have to right to choose to not suffer, not live in pain, to seek help to comfort oourselves so that we shouldn't have to endure the torture that a terminal illness has put on us. Everyone one has the right...just not everyone is able to carry out that

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