Should active assisted suicide be permitted for people who are terminally ill and conscious? This issue has been raised at the courts many times now and yet the disabled still must suffer while when our pets are terminally ill they are put down to end the suffering. For those who are terminally ill and conscious that would like to continue their life I stand by them. However I feel that if a terminally ill person decides that their life should be ended to end their suffering should not be discriminated against and receive their wishes.
The terminally ill that are suffering in the same hospital bed for months un end and they can no longer live their life like that, should receive active assisted suicide. Only if there is sufficient evidence that this person would like to have their life ended. They have a right to life, which is in the charter of rights, and therefore if they no longer want to continue that life then they should have a right to death. .
Suicide is available to all. Although a person who is terminally ill and hospitalized may not be given this option. Therefore they are being discriminated against. People who are living in a hospital bed for the rest of their painful life should receive their wishes, which in some cases active assisted suicide. Yet it is still against the law and they have to continue their life. I feel it is uncivilized to reject the terminally ill of equal opportunity. If I was terminally ill and had no chance of getting better and I lived in the hospital that would be no life for me and I would request active assisted suicide although I would never receive my last wish. I would be left on the bed to slowly and painfully die.
The terminally ill that wish for active suicide would receive the fact that they would no longer suffer while slowly dieing on a hospital bed. Being injected by drugs all day and night which are just to ease the pain is not worth living if you cannot live your life they way you want to through my eyes however some may disagree and I respect that.