Assisted Suicide
Why is this even an issue? Why should someone be FORCED to live through utter pain and suffering.
Me personally, I would try to fight and hang on as long as possible, because I don't want to die. But that's me, and I feel it is WRONG to tell someone that they must conform to my feelings of life. I have never had altiemers, I have never been diagnosed with cancer and told by a doctor that I have year to live. I can not make assumptions about how these people feel, unless I have experienced the pain my self.
I was once debating with someone on this subject. This person proceeded to call these people who seek assisted suicide "cowards, who instead of facing life decide to tuck tale and run" That statement really pissed me off. First of all it's not that they can't face life its that they can't face DEATH! They are dying. It is not an illness that will go away. It is continuos pain with death being the only end, one way or another. Remember that in the act of dying you are already partial dead, life is being drained of you very slowly, and that is utter hell! I know the classic argument is that doctors will be putting everyone to death. You know and I know that is plain bull shit. Doctors are not going to help someone that has depression commit suicide, and doctors are not going to suggest to someone who has cancer that euthanasia is the best decision. People will be aloud to ask help from their doctor in dying peaceful instead of having to splatter their brains across their bed room wall with a shot gun, or swallowing a bunch of arsenic.
These people want live as much as you and I do, but they are not living anymore (in their own words). This is a quality of life issue. Quality of life in my opinion is more important then life its self. I know I'm going to get hate mail saying that that's an evil statement, but its the truth. You have to remember that most of these people have had 70, 80 years of quality life before their illness. Why, force them to spend the home stretch of their life bed ridden unable to remember their own children's names. Let the people die with their dignity and self respect, let them die in peace.
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