Assisted Suicide: An Easier Way Out

Title	Assisted Suicide: An Easier Way Out
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Assisted Suicide: An Easier Way Out

Assisted Suicide: An Easier Way Out

     Doctor Kevorkian and other so-called "death doctors" should be permitted
to assist in the premature deaths of the terminally ill.  Although many states
outlaw assisted suicides, nevertheless, they should by made legal for terminally
ill patients.  These patients may not want to suffer a long, painful death.  The
terminally ill will not get well, they might decide to make the decision of
ending their life alone if they cannot receive proper help, and assisted
suicides may one day be useful in discovering how the human brain works or
perhaps find a cure to some fatal diseases.

     First, the terminally ill patients will not get better or become cured
of the disease they have.  According to many medical physicians the expression
"terminally ill" means being in the final stages of a disease that is incurable
(Hentoff, p.10).  If a person has a despairing disease such as AIDS, that person
may not want to live the rest of their short life with all the pain and
frustration.

        Next, the terminally ill might injure their body even more by taking up
the decision in their own hands.   Offering help in assisted suicides to the
fatally ill would prevent anything like this from happening.  The Second Circuit
Court of Appeals created a law that prohibited physicians from helping their
patients die (Lemonick, p.82).  Now, patients who are terminally ill and who
wish to die might decide to kill themselves in a manner that is less humane than
with a lethal  injection or dosage of medicine.  This new law makes it much
harder to get proper help in attaining an assisted suicide.  This clearly would
cause many more problems than it would do good.

     Last, there are many ways that using terminally ill patients that can
benefit scienc...

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