RIGHT TO DIE

Right to Die

Right to Die

Introduction

Some people argue that since we are free; we have the right to choose what concerns us. We can choose where to live, what to study, with whom to share our lives, and, where, when and how to die. Since its uncommon thought, nobody can force us to go on living if it is not our intention. Therefore, if we're bored with life, tired of fighting, our freedom allows us the ability to choose when to die. (LeBaron, 2010) The Right to die is indeed a very controversial topic. People who are dying every day are suffering through prolonged bouts with diseases from that they cannot recover. These people want to have a choice to die without the suffering.

Discussion

The debate surrounding on the right to die presents a serious dilemma for patients and health care providers. The ethical dilemma of right to die centered on the conflict between patient autonomy and the health care provider's ethical duty to the principles of beneficence. As adults, we have choices in life concerning what we do with our body. We are our personal property, to do whatever we want to with so long as it does not harm another. Almost anywhere you go in the world you find people with tattoos and body piercing. Plastic surgery is becoming more and more popular, and we can even donate organs. Any medical procedure performed in the US requires a consent form. Even if it is medically necessary a person can decline a procedure even if it means they will die. When you are injured or ill and even if you may die from that injury or illness, if you are a competent adult you can elect not to have a procedure performed, and this is perfectly legal.

The closest most society's will come to legally allowing a person to die without helping them die is to make them comfortable and free of pain, allowing them to die with dignity. Supporters of assisted suicide, and also the right to die aim to help people die with dignity. Assisting a terminally ill, competent adult to end their life preserves a person's dignity during death. Jack Kevorkian he is a major supporter of the right to die. The patients should have right to die because it is better to die than facing pain which is unbearable this can be understood with an example of a lady. (Hazel, 2005)

In the fight for the right to die, in the early 1990's a woman by the name of Sue Rodriguez diagnosed with a terrible and fatal illness known as Lou Gehrig's disease. It is a fatal motor neuronal disorder that withers down a victim's motor functions. This disease makes the person suffer for a long time before the person ends up not being able to respire without help and eventually dying. This death was extremely slow and drawn out as well as painful mentally and physically. As soon as the symptoms of the disease became ...