Medically assisted death for terminally ill

[Aunt Bea]

As long as the patient must make the decision for himself/herself, I am strongly in favor of assisted suicide for the terminally ill. I do not think society has a right to force someone to go all the way through an agonizing, inevitable death if the person does not choose to do so. Where does society think it gets the right to insist that one live on in terrible, intractable pain if there is a humane option? I don't see where it is any of society's business to make it illegal for a person to choose a peaceful, humane death over an excruciating one. How do we get that right to make that decision for others??

I agree.

It should be a right for each of us to request that final prescription.

 

[john19485]

Take it from someone who knows , a gun barrel does not taste good .

Well...I'm not a "God-sorta-guy" so I believe the assistant part comes from the desire to [go] but do it correctly , completely, and with less mess. True a shotgun in the mouth will 'git'er-done' But that is traumatic for the finder,... family .

Take myself for example...I have no family, all my local [close] friends are dead. If I were to make such a decision ? I really wouldn't want to do it, and just lay here till the mailman notices the smell.

Using 'assisted',... someone knows your plans...and will call the undertaker when the deed is done.