People who are fatally sick should be able to die with dignity . For some, choosing their death is the last act of independence they can take since it can get to the point where controlling their own body is not an option anymore. Not being able to eat, use the bathroom or even the do simplest task as breathing can be frustrating and depressing. Being able to say no to all the suffering is the last grasp at willpower that they can have. “I Pledge allegiance, to the flag, of the United States of America. And to the republic, for which it stands, one nation under God. Indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” (Francis) . Those who are suffering do not get the justice to chose over their life. The patients do not have the liberty to pursue their own happiness (Pledge) …show more content…
“The oath makes the physician promise to relieve pain and not administer deadly medicine” (The Right). To a patient however, relieving pain would in their best interest. To them it would not be a form of deadly medicine but a more like a form of cure. Others would say that ending life can not be a way of improving it but for someone who actually has a dead illness ; the patient would think differently. For a person whose health will never return ; prolonging his or her life is just a form of torture (Guides) . Therefore physician assisted suicide should not be seen as the ending of someone’s life but instead be seen as the end of someone’s suffering and pain. As a person, one has the constitutional and moral right to over his or her body. If a person decides to die with dignity then rather have to go through months of misery. Then that is their choice. If a patient would want to spare their family of hospital debt. If the pain is too much for them to continue. Then that is their choice over their life. The terminally ill person’s decision should be respected just the same as the healthy person’s decision is