There are some serious consequences to legalizing assisted suicides in this country. The most obvious is peo

Supporters of the right to assisted suicide, most commonly people with terminal illnesses and their advocates, believe that the dying person should have the right to decide how and when to end his or her own life. They believe that terminally ill people have the right to “die with dignity”(Oregon’s Death with dignity Act). These are people who want to avoid prolonged death in which they may be in terrible pain, heavily sedated or wholly dependent on family members and caregivers. A person, who has deteriorated to the point of misery and can no longer function; who has no longer found meaning in his life, who feels he has become a burden to his family should certainly have the option of deciding how and when he wants to die.

A proponent of assisted-suicide and a controversial figure in the medical world is Dr. Jack Kevorkian. Dr. Kevorkian is a Michigan pathologist who has helped more than fifty people die since 1990 (Issues and Controversies: Assisted Suicide Update). Dr. Kevorkian maintains, “Passive Euthanasia is just natural death. Allowing someone to starve to death and die of thirst, the way we do now, is barbaric. The Nazis did that in the concentration camps” (McCuen). Dr. Kevorkian believes the medical institutions today do not do enough in aiding terminal patients. Many patients complain thei

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