Assisted Suicide Should Be Legal - 2253 Words

Assisted Suicide should be made legal because many people suffer from diseases that aren’t always curable, it doesn t make sense to let them go through all that pain and some families have financial struggles paying for their medical bill. This controversial debate is whether or not assisted suicide or mercy killing should be legal, whether or not doctors should be allowed to help patients kill themselves or give guidance on how to. People argue that assisted suicide should be considered legal, â€Å"In a spirit of compassion for all, this manifesto proclaims that every competent adult has the incontestable right to humankind’s ultimate civil and personal liberty -- the right to die in a manner and at a time of their own choosing. Whereas†¦show more content†¦So on this side of the argument they have the law to back them up and justify their statement and say that it should be illegal. This topic of assisted suicide aroused in 1906 in ohio as they drafted a bi ll to legalize it but it did not succeed. This debate began in 1994, Oregon voters passed the Death with Dignity Act, which legalized physician-assisted suicide for the terminally ill. Since then, it has become legal in 4 more states, including New Mexico. In 2008 in Montana,† a 76 year old truck driver from Billings dying of lymphocytic leukemia asked the court to establish a constitutional right to receive and provide aid in dying.Judge Dorothy McCarter ruled that a terminally ill, competent patient has a legal right to die with dignity under Article II, Sections 4 and 10 of the Montana Constitution. With that said that gives the right for the physician to give or aid the patient in his or hers suicide and not be arrested or charged in anyway. And also california has just recently passed assisted suicide to be legal in oct 2015. A lot of the people that are involved with this debate are patients and patients family who see what there friends or family members who have seen what the treatment of cancer and other diseases have put them through and how much they suffered. The people that are affected by this debate are people who have to live with a dying disease and whether or not they have to suffer through all the pain