Argumentative Essay: The Issue Of Assisted Suicide

Over the last decade assisted suicide has become a hot topic for debate. Assisted suicide is the death of someone with an incurable illness caused by taking a lethal amount of drugs prescribed by a physician. There are many controversial points regarding this topic such as at what point is someone considered terminally ill, controlling the prescription to only those deemed necessary, and assisted suicide for children. As Americans, we have always been taught that we have the right to choose. Whether it is freedom of speech or right to bear arms, it was always the choice to do so that made living in the United States of America so sought after. We talk a lot about our freedom in our country, and although this one topic may be filled with moral, ethical, and religious concerns, the right to end one's life should be a choice that each person has the right to make.
An adult who is competent, is a resident of Washington state, and has been determined by the attending physician and consulting physician to be suffering from a terminal disease, and who has voluntarily expressed his or her wish to die, may make a written request for medication that the patient may self-administer to end his or her life in a humane and dignified manner. (State-by-State Guide to
Being forced in and out of the hospital with unimaginable, unbearable pain, sickness, and suffering. They are offered as much medicine as the doctors can prescribe to help take the edge off but are still miserable. At what point do they say "I have had enough." Once that decision has been made, envision being told that there is nothing any doctor can do and that person just has to wait until their body just gives in and can't take anymore. How ethical is it to leave someone in so much agony? Why not give them that one last decision to make on their