Eric Covell
POSC 199 Intro to California Politics
Som Chounlamountry When you lose sight of the beauty of life and live in fear of the future that is ahead of you because it will be short, what choice do you have but to leave on your own terms. Everyone has the right to their own life and if someone is suffering, they have the right to die. Assisted suicide should be allowed in hospitals in the United States because it is unethical to prolong a person’s suffering, each person has a natural right to end their life, it would decrease the amount of terminally ill patients that end their lives themselves, and it has been practiced for thousands of years and should therefore still be allowed. There are several cases and text that support and demonstrate these …show more content…
Jay was a homosexual who was living life to the fullest until he contracted AIDS. Once having contracted AIDS Jay began to give up on life. He fell into a deep depression which led him to the only answer he thought would solve his problem, suicide. “Reasons for living, The beauty of the earth, summer, winter, spring and fall… Reasons for not living…Depressed… Tired… Don’t feel it’s worthwhile to make plans as I fear death by AIDS. Maybe death is a welcome relief. On to the next chapter” (Herringer). This was a poem written by Jay 3 months before he was officially diagnosed with full blown AIDS. After his death, his sister did everything in her power to look into the idea of assisted suicide for the terminally ill. She believed if the option would have been there for him he would not have had to take his own life. He would not have had to suffer as long if it had been offered at the beginning. That is one of the ultimate benefits of assisted suicide, is that it would decrease the percentage of terminally ill patients that take their own