Even though assisted suicide ends suffering and people avoid having to do painful treatments that ruins their lifestyle, We should not legalize assisted suicide; rather, we should respond to suffering with appropriate medical care and human presence. Few people, if any, simply make a cool, rational decision to …show more content…
Anderson, also states, “We should respond to suffering with appropriate medical care and human presence.” This topic could be debated either way. Is there really any reason to legalize this? If you're so sick that you need to kill yourself, you will die soon anyway without killing yourself. Assisted suicide is really just a form of murder assisted by the doctors. Hospitals make mistakes diagnosing people and that could cause someone to lose their life for no reason. They probably could've lived a lot longer.
Assisted suicide should not be legalized because few people if any make a cool rational decision to suicide, people with mental problems often make distorted decisions and we should respond to suffering with appropriate medical care and human presents. As you can see assisted suicide should not be legalized because people with mental problems might use it when they don't need to, and it will cause more people to die because the treatments that their getting out of could save their