What are some of the arguments for physician-assisted suicide?
– Many patients struggle to live with terminal diseases that bring only terrible pain and suffering, moving toward a slow and agonizing death. These patients could be saved from this horrible process, once doctors can see their prognosis is limited to six months or less. These patients would be allowed to die with dignity. – The patient’s family and friends would have time to prepare for the pain and anguish that comes with the death of a loved one from a terrible disease. Patients would receive the chance to say their final goodbyes. – Without the law, terminally ill patients may take the matter into their own hands and commit suicide in a traumatic way. – The right to die should be a freedom for each person—if the terminally ill patient and family mutually agree, then he or she should be able to choose. The Constitution does not state that the government has the right to deny any citizen this choice. And what are some of the arguments against physician-assisted suicide? – The act vio
