Argumentative Essay: Death With Dignity

In November of 2014, Brittany Maynard, having battled with an aggressive brain cancer for almost a year, succumbed to the illness and used the death with dignity act to pass peacefully and on her own terms. When Maynard got the prognosis that she would only have six months left to live, her and her family start researching and eventually came up with the heart-rending result that there is no treatment that would prolong or even save her life. The only option where she wouldn't have to be in pain for months and her family wouldn't have to watch her slowly wither away was using the death with dignity act. The death with dignity act is for people with terminal illnesses with six months or less to live and are mentally stable. When approved, a doctor prescribes you the medication that would end your life and you would be able to take it when your condition either worsened or you felt the time was right. With it only being legal in five states, Maynard and her family had to uproot their lives and move from California to Oregon where she also had to change all of her information so that she would be a resident in the state, doing it all while being terminally ill. Obviously, having death with dignity legal in California would have been way easier for her, and she

A director at the National Catholic Bioethics Center, Reverend Tadeusz Pacholczyk, describes how a time was appointed for us to come into this life and a time has been appointed for us to pass out of it so we shouldn't attack what time we have left by taking a pill to end our life (Somers). I understand that assisted suicide goes against everything in various religions, but you could simply ignore it. Don't take it away from someone who is suffering so much that they would go through all the trouble to even obtain the lethal medication. Just like everything else in the world, if you don’t like it, don’t do