Euthanasia

     The best way to ensure a person’s rights and to enable them a peaceful death is to legalize euthanasia.  People already have the right to live so they should have the right to die also.

     People need to be educated about terminal diseases and non-painful ways of dying.  Currently, there are very few places that allow euthanasia.  The Netherlands is the only place in the world to allow both euthanasia and assisted suicide.  In the US no states allow euthanasia however, Oregon allows assisted suicide.  Another place that allows assisted suicide is Switzerland.  In Belgium, voluntary euthanasia, which is based on a person’s request, is allowed.  Even though there are only a few places to officially allow euthanasia and assisted suicide, many others have taken the idea into great consideration such as the UK. 

     It is important that everyone discusses this topic and thinks about it deeply because nobody ever knows if they or family member or close friend will end up with a terminal illness.  Some can be unexpected and everyone needs to be prepared for that slight chance.  Patients should be allowed to choose whether they want to continue living in excruciating pain or die peacefully. Each person will have their own opinion on the topic but it is only fair to allow the choice of euthanasia to everyone.  Even if some people are against euthanasia they should still allow it to those who request it.  People who don’t have a terminal illness do not experience what it’s like to live with that.  They don’t know how a terminally ill person feels and have no right to decline them euthanasia.  If euthanasia were legal not everyone would have to commit to it.  The thing that is great about America is that people have freedom of choice.  If someone does not want assisted suicide they are in no way required to have it but those who do want assisted suicide should be able to have that choice.