Argumentative Essay: The Legalization Of Assisted Suicide

Euthanasia is defined as the painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease or in an irreversible coma. Euthanasia helps many families put down their animals so they are no longer in pain. Doesn't that seem better than allowing them to suffer? Many states are discussing the idea of legalization of the right to die. Right now the right to die is legal in six states. As time goes on there will be more and more states who legalized assisted suicide. Many people are picking up their entire life and moving to a different state, just so they can have the option to die when and how they want. Brittany Maynard was one of those people, she decided to move from California to Oregon so that she could use the state's Death with Dignity Law (Ziegler). The idea of assisted suicide started in 1990 with Dr. Kevorkian. He was the first doctor to create an assisted suicide machine; the machine named the Thanatron had
The first one being a saline solution, then a painkiller and, lastly, a fatal dose of the poison potassium chloride ("Jack Kevorkian"). Although the right to die undermines doctor's role in society, doctors should be allowed to use euthanasia on terminally ill patients because it allows people to have more control over what happens in their life, and it can provide an escape to people's endless suffering.

Even though there are many pros to the right to die, there is one undeniable con that comes with the legalization of the right to die. Assisted suicide undermines doctor's role in society. Many people believe that when doctors use the right to die it is changing their role in society. According to the American Medical Association "Allowing physicians to participate in assisted suicide would cause more harm than good" ("Right to Die"). This shows that many experts in the medical field think the right to die cause more harm than good. A lot