Struggle

Assisted suicide can be defined as ending one’s life with the assistance of another person, typically a medical professional, who helps by providing advice or necessary medication or equipment. Assisted suicide should be legalized so that each individual can control the circumstances of his or her death.   Life is very precious gift given by GOD and should not involve suffering and pain. In today’s world, many complications can end life in which it is simply more painful to survive through the treatment. In that case, patients are tired of the pain and suffering and would rather die than to bare the pain.   In society, there are a lot of arguments, in which people involve religious views and ideas to penalize the thought of assisted suicide. In my opinion, assisted suicide should be legal, if he or she wants to die, if he or she doesn’t want his or her family to see him or her suffer, and some patients might feel that they are going to end up in a “better   place’ when they die. Should physicians be granted the power to intentionally end the lives of their patients? Recent proposals to legalize the physician-assisted suicide have raised this question and triggered an intense legal, medical, and social debate. For some individuals, the debate is fueled by their fear that medical technology may someday keep them alive past the time of natural death. However, this concern is unfounded for mentally competent adults who have a legal right to refuse or stop any medical treatment. It is also important to recognize that today’s health care climate borrows itself more to under treatment than overtreatment. However, the current argument is not about denying the treatment or taking unusual forms of measures. The issue is whether physicians should be allowed to intentionally end their patient’s life, either by providing the tools of death or ending the patient’s life by the physician’s hands.
People in today’s society often use the terms “physician-assisted suicide” and... [continues]

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