Why Assisted Suicide Should Be Legal

             Assisted Suicide: Why it Should be Legal Rachel Lyndon
             Our society has adopted many rules that they think should apply to all the masses. One rule that our society has adopted, with a few notable exceptions in cases of war and capital punishment, is that is that it's wrong to take a life. This rule helps ensure personal security, interpersonal trust, and social stability. The "rule" is so important, some people say, that to change it at all, even for the most humane reasons, would do irreparable harm. Is this a logical, empathetic, way of looking at Euthanasia? It's just the opposite. Anyone who is suffering and in physical pain should be allowed to end their life if they are in a competent and sane state of mind.
             Assisted suicide, or euthanasia is banned in most parts of the United States, (while in other parts, such as Oregon, the law is being appealed. Refusing to provide the means of death does a patient serious harm and ignores individual right to relieve suffering. In 1981, California native, 55 year old Clarence Herbert suffered a paralyzing heart attack and slipped into a coma after a surgery. His condition was hopeless, so at the family's request, and the patient's prior wishes, doctors, Robert J. Nedjl and Neil L. Barber disconnected his life support. Herbert died six days later. The doctors were charged with murder, but in 1983, an appeals court dismissed the charges. These doctors were simply removing life support to give Mr. Herbert some dignity while dying. Clarence Herbert and others like him should be allowed to end their lives if they are anguishing over incurable pain or have permanently lost mobility and/or consciousness. Other examples are patients who!
             suffer from Lou Gehrig's Disease,( amyotroph/c lateral sclerosis), like "Rubin T." a Switzerland man, (Suicide is legal in Switzerland), who chose Euthanasia over the unbearable suffering of A...

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