"My Feeling on Assisted Suicide"

I do feel that physician-assisted suicide should be an option for the terminally ill. This option carries with it many responsibilities for the physician and many decisions for the ill. The choice of life is the most personal and individualized decision a person can make. Quantity of life is basically irrelevant if the quality does not meet the needs of the individual. Physician-assisted suicides show more respect for the family of the ill than leaving no other option than for the ill to seek other means of attempting to end their life. In physician-assisted suicides, the family may be present and last wishes and goodbyes acknowledged and, most important, dignity of the entire family and the ill preserved. No one should have the privilege of determining when someone’s life is worth living or not, except the person living it. I believe the quality of life far out weighs the quantity in importance. If a person feels, that due to illness of which there is no hope of improvement, that quality has been diminished, then he/she has the right to seek assistance in dying with dignity.

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