"Death With Dignity Can Be Slippery Slope," was written by Stephen Chapman is and article posted in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch is the article that will be responded upon. This was a powerful and inviting article that persuaded you to agree with the term known as "euthanasia," when actually you are supporting the relief for victims of deadly illness who must encounter terrible pain without the option of taking a pain free way out. .
The author makes many valid points. For one he is saying that terminally ill patients don't want to suffer when it could be possible for them to take the easy way out and just end their live the self-satisfying way. In this point the author is standing behind his beliefs in that if you have the right to do so many things than you have the right to do what you want to your body, mind, and spirit. .
His next point ties in with that last one. Each individual person has the right to own their life and should also be aloud to abandon it. If you are the one paying for medicare and forking over thousands of dollars to stay alive don't you agree that if you feel it is right to take yourself off of what ever type of life support you are on. If you are paying you make the decessions, and if you decide to go out in the most pain-less way than who should be able to stop you.
His final point is that in the long run it will be less expensive to government agencies along with privately funding organizations. All of these statements were stated in the article. For a government, who are sticklers for money sure do care about their citizens now that they are forceing them to stay alive when in doubt they really just want to go the the after life and enjoy that rather than lay at a hospital and suffer. This should just be another passage in the "Constitution of the United States.".
To me the article was very true in that is stated enough facts to back up his reasoning, along with my feelings.