Euthanasia, Your Right To Die

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Through out a person’s life they have many choices to make. Probably the most difficult and important choice for them to make is that of their right to die. Today’s society has this set view in a structure functionalism type of mindset that no person should be in control of his or her own life in choosing whether to live or die. It is said that life should be lived to the end and no sooner then that. As stated in this web site “Not dead yet” http://acils.com/NotDeadYet/ Wednesday August 30, 2000 5:49 PM Americans with Disabilities don't want your pity or your lethal mercy, we want freedom, we want LIFE. Now one may ask “why does this person want to die.” Is it because the fact he or she thinks their lives are bad and wants to end the mental burden that they bestow upon themselves or is it a person who is willing to give up their life to end the mental and physical suffering of pain from a terminally ill disease? This is a question that many debates and trials are over.
There also is suicide by a cop. Which many suicidal people attempt to accomplish. Though no matter what way a person chooses to die, the ultimate question is “Who’s right is it to choose to die?”
Since the birth of Western medicine, more than 2,000 years ago, physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia have been profound ethical issues confronting all doctors. All the arguments made today to explain or condemn the two practices were created before any modern biomedical technology existed. The ancient Hippocratic Oath brands physicians to "neither give a deadly drug to anybody if asked for it, nor make a suggestion to this effect." The oath was written long ago when physicians commonly provided euthanasia and assisted suicide for ailments ranging from sever headaches and gallstones to cancer and small pox. Indeed, the Hippocratic Oath was concocted for the minority view in a debate within the ancient Greek medical community over the ethics and...