The choice of life: Does a person have the right to decide between life and death? Should a patient be allowed to take the easy way out and get help from a doctor to commit suicide, or die according to their destiny? There is a major clash of opinions between the people who think that assisted suicide is a criminal offense and people who support the idea. The majority says that assisted suicide is a criminal act and should be banned . This position was rooted in the belief that such an act as euthanasia is "fundamentally incompatible with the physicians role as a healer." The debate is that when a person is at a dead end, either in a coma or having been diagnosed with a terminal disease that ends in death, should that person be able to have the right to choose to die by an assisted suicide. The controversy of doctors taking the lives of their patients is still indigestible even in this technologically advanced world where practices such as cloning and animal organ donation occurs. .
Although the word suicide is the correct word to use, it should not be called suicide. Suicide is a destruction of one's own body. When a doctor helps to end a patient's life who is in unending pain after the patient asks for an end of their life-sustaining treatment, people should think of it as "allowing people to die" There are two cases for an assisted suicide according to Euthanasia Research & Guidance Organization (ERGO). "One is if the patient is in an advanced terminal illness that is causing unbearable suffering to the individual. This is the most common reason to seek an early end. The other is if the person suffers from a grave physical handicap which is so restricting that the individual cannot, even after due consideration, counseling and re-training, tolerate such a limited existence. This is a fairly rare reason for suicide -- most impaired people cope remarkably well with their affliction, but there are some who would, at a certain point, rather die.