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... Given our rights in America, should Americans have the right to choose their fate? Because of our freedoms, and because it should be that patient‘s decision, Americans should have the right to die if that is their wish. ... Passive euthanasia is deliberately withholding or withdrawing medical treatment, which would help the patient to live longer, with the intention of ending life. ... Depression, which is often covert and can coexist with physical illness, is together with anxiety and the wish to die often the first reaction to the knowledge of serious illness and possible death. ... The judges said that if he made a living will expressing his future wishes, he could have been allowed to die in peace earlier. ... She lived on in terror, helped eventually by a doctor who, in February 1994, covertly broke the law to help her die in peace. ... In April, 1990, the Roper Report found that 64% of Americans believed that the terminally ill should have the right to request and receive physician aid-in-dying. ... ”
Competent terminally ill persons have the right to make the “most basic decisions” about bodily integrity. They have the right to define their own concept of existence and the attributes of their personhood without the “compulsion of the state.
Approximate Word count = 1318
Approximate Pages = 5.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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