There are countless elderly people in care facilities that have repeatedly expressed a desire to die. There are countless terminally ill patients that have also begged for death. Should these people be allowed to die, or should they be forced to keep on living? This is the question that has plagued ethicists and physicians for years.
Why shouldn't you be allowed to die? I mean it's your life. If its your life shouldn't it be your decision?.
Sure, You shouldn't let teenagers going through a bit of depression do it but why should we make people with terminal illnesses suffer for any longer than they already have?.
If you are a religious person maybe you would be thinking that it should be god who chooses when you die. But for the people with terminal illnesses such as cancer this is what they are waiting for to the end the pain and suffering that has gone on years for some people.
The so-called "Dr Death" or Dr. Philip Nitschke has come up with many machines to help terminally ill people take their own lives easier. Its not like we are taking them around the back and shooting them. Most of these machines use carbon monoxide so they die and the sleep and there is no pain involved whatsoever. .
You have to ask yourself what would you do if you were in that position. Would you want to live on?.
In the Netherlands, courts have begun to permit the administration of lethal injections to terminally ill patients . Activists for the "Right to Life" don't stop to consider the right to die. I believe that the Right to Die is as sacred a right as the Right to Life. People who believe in the Right to Die are not alone. The Hemlock Society, which advocates the right to die for terminally ill patients claims to have 28,000.
In Holland where the figures for deaths from active euthanasia is in the range of six to eighteen thousand deaths . This number may seem horrible to some, but to others, it simply means another six to eighteen thousand people who are no longer suffering.