Assisted Suicide

Assisted suicide is the best option for the terminally ill people that want to put an end to their suffering. Terminal ill patients should be allowed to request assisted suicide to end their life in a painless, humane, and cheaper way. Assisted death is a great issue in the United States, many people are against it.Throughout the years people have argued that assisted suicide is unethical and morally wrong, without realizing the good intentions behind it. The purpose of assisted suicide is to provide people who have been diagnosed with a terminal illness with an alternative. These people seek a fast and easy way to end their life, assisted suicide offers them that option. But what is assisted suicide? Assisted suicide is the suicide provided to a person suffering from an incurable disease, effected by taking lethal drugs provided by a doctor.
She was denied assisted suicide (Len Doyal and Lesley Doyal 1079). People who are denied assisted suicide are being denied of their rights. Diane, who suffered from motor neuronic disease, had the right to receive assisted death aid. All she wanted was an alternative to end her suffering and she was denied of that. The author Esther B. stated in her article, The right to assisted suicide, "Technology is science's greatest gift. For the terminally ill, it's just a means of prolonging suffering". Denying a person from assisted death just prolongs the person's agony just like the author