Assisted Suicide Argumentative Essay

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How would you feel if this was your mother or any loved one? Euthanasia or assisted suicide for terminally ill patients should be legal."Supporters of the right to die movement argue that the courts have found just as there is a constitutional right to refuse medical treatment, that there is a constitutional right to ask for medical assistance in dying"(text 2). People should have the choice of Euthanasia or assisted suicide if they are terminally ill. Euthanasia and assisted suicide should be legal in all fifty states because people deserve the right to die with dignity and free from pain and suffering.

In "Should Euthanasia or physician-aided suicide be legal"? From procon.org. The article goes into detail about why Euthanasia or assisted suicide for terminally ill patients deserve the right to decide if they live in pain or die with dignity. Terminally ill patients have to make choices about how they are treated so they should also get to decide how they end treatment with Euthanasia or assisted suicide. This article asks and important question. "Does not doing harm mean we should prolong a life that a patient sees as a painful …show more content…

Others have no recourse other than to recommend that patients starve themselves to death."(text 2). Which would be an extremely painful death and would do more damage than assisted suicide. It shouldn't be the government's choice whether someone lives in pain or dies peacefully. The government should not be able to take that right away from terminally ill

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