ical stress, decreasing health, and sometimes outrageously high medical bills. All of these factors can lead one to feel as if taking their own life would be the best option. Society helps to make the thought of suicide seem better by saying that "One no longer commits suicide, one performs self-deliverance" (Tada 31). People view it as making it better for themselves and for those around them, so they want to have an assisted suicide where a doctor can give them an injection or drug that will let them solve their problems. "In studies of assisted suicide and euthanasia...physicians reported that loss of dignity, pain, not wishing to die in an 'unworthy way', being dependent on others, and being tired of living were the reasons patients have for requesting euthanasia" (Hendin 243). Some feel that taking their own lives is wrong, but having a doctor do it for you is not wrong at all. They do not consider it to be the same as suicide. This is where the controversy begins. Society says that it is a patient's right to take his or her own life or have a doctor take it if the patient feels there is no hope for him or her. This is wrong though because with today's continually advancing technology there is always a hope of getting better and if not then one should try to live it out and make the best of the rest of his
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