Why Should Assisted Suicide Be Legalized?

Assisted suicide, euthanasia, is giving professional and legal aid to a person that wants to kill themselves. Debates have risen in terms of whether euthanasia should be legalised or not. Many call it being reckless but actually its freedom. We as humans do not have a choice when it comes to being born but when it comes to death I think we should have an opinion. Hence I believe that assisted suicide should be legalised. Like I already mentioned, people should have an opinion in their OWN lives. Therefore that being a reason that assisted suicide should be legalised. The person feels as though they are done, then they should be helped in their decision. People argue that helping someone kill themselves is a way of violating their right to
The argument here would be that both these practises are also a form of assisted suicide because at the end of the day they all serve the same function of helping the patient end his life. The worst thing is that compared to assisted suicide which gives the patient freedom of choice, these other methods do not. They both state that if the patient is unconscious or anything of that matter, the family or doctors may take a decision for them. Whereas with assisted suicide the patient makes his/her own decision even if they are pressured but point is that no one took their right of freedom choice away from
Even though the patient lived with everyone at the end of the day it is their life here, not anyone else’s. Freedom of choice is a law in the bill of rights in the section 15 subsection (1) which says everyone has the right to freedom of conscience, religion, thought, belief and opinion. Then another law is in section 12 (2)(b) which clearly states that everyone has the right to bodily and psychological integrity which includes the right to security in and control over the body. This basically saying that the patient would not be breaking any law by asking for assisted suicide, they would actually be practising their rights. And talking about laws and ways of acting, there is the Hippocratic Oath. The Hippocratic Oath being a document stating the responsibilities and proper ways Doctors should handle themselves. People have argued that assisted suicide is going against the first rule which says killing a patient is prohibited but it is in the same oath that it says that Doctors are not allowed to keep patients suffering. It is also in the same oath that it states that Doctors are to help patients in everything. This thus proving that the Hippocratic Oath contradicts itself and that should it should not be used in