Euthanasia Pro-Con

Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide Have you ever thought about, or know someone who has planned their own funeral? You would have the opportunity to if euthanasia were legal. Euthanasia should be legal because the patient himself and his or her family should be able to decide if they want to end the emotional and physical suffering. Euthanasia is the painless killing to relieve suffering: the act or practice of killing somebody who has an incurable illness or injury, or of assisting that person to die. The first argument is the right to die. The right of a terminally ill patient is part of their liberty. The exercise of that right should be safeguarded and treated as such other personal liberties, marriage, child rearing, procreation, family relationships and termination of a lifesaving medical treatment. In particular, the Court's decision concerning the right to refuse medical treatment and the right to abortion instruct that a mentally competent, terminally ill person should be able to make their own “life altering” decision. (American Civil Liberties Union) The opposing view is that the asserted 'right' to assistance in committing suicide is not a fundamental liberty interest protected by the Due Process Clause. The right to die should be an unwritten personal liberty. There are numerous jobs where you are in danger and could die any day and one might say because it’s for a good cause, but is not one’s emotional well-being not a good enough cause.
The second argument is the government involvement in end of life decisions. A lot of questions that arise are when do we stop doing all that we can do? When do we withhold which therapies and allow nature to take its course? When are we, through our own indecision and fears of mortality, allowing wondrous medical methods to perversely prolong the dying rather than the living? I think we know that we did all that we have done when there are no more treatments that are less dangerous than your