Most people want to live their life with dignity and die with dignity. People live their life the way they choose to. They make important choices and decisions all through their life. Some of these decisions are very difficult, life changing decisions. We live in a democratic society where we can be free to make these decisions. Death is an inevitable event that we all must experience. Death can be unexpected or even planned. It can be quick or it can be prolonged. Some people become very ill or have devastating physical problems to endure. They have a constitutional right to refuse treatment. Most patients have a great trust in their doctor to help them cope with their illness. Often decisions are made for extraordinary treatment and medication to prolong life and lessen suffering. Other times, decisions are made to refuse life sustaining treatment . Some people may choose not to suffer with unbearable pain. They may not want to live a life that has no meaning. As their suffering increases, their dignity decreases. A person should have the freedom of choice in to end their life if they are mentally competent to do so. A patient should be allowed to end their life with dignity. Physicians should be allowed to assist in ending the life of a terminally ill, mentally competent person and therefore, physician assisted suicide should be legalized.
             Some opponents say that assisted suicide is unconstitutional, and refer to the 14th amendment to the Constitution. It states "that no state shall deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law"(Rein 118). This is called the Due Process Clause of the Constitution. "In 1997, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld that 'the liberty' protected by the Due Process Clause does not include a right to commit suicide, which itself includes a right to assistance in doing so"(Rein 121). Does this mean that a terminally ill person has to live their life...