Since the law was finally approved in 1997, forty-three people have taken advantage of the opportunity to spend their last moments of life in a carefree, peaceful state. The patient is in complete control of the drugs, the doctors are not allowed to administer the substance, they are only allowed to prescribe a lethal dose. This law rests on a thin line. Many say that patients experiencing extreme pain are not competent enough to make a clear-minded decision whether they want to live or die. When life becomes unbearable, quick death can be the answer. If a patient that spends every day in excruciating pain and is given the ability to take it all away at the switch of a button and give up on the fight for life the majority would utilize this. If living persons become so ill that they cannot tolerate the pain, they have a right to die to an escape from torment. .
It is not morally acceptable to commit suicide in our society. Though it has been recently legalized many believe that one should not hold the power to kill themselves and take away the life that God has given them. Christians and many other faiths argue that "Life is a gift from God and each individual is its steward, only God can start a life and only God should be allowed to end one. God does not send us any experience that we can not handle." (Religious aspects, 4) Unfortunately with the day and age that we live in this statement is unreasonable. Because of modern medicine and health care benefits people are now able to enhance the conditions of their lives and control debilitative diseases. Religiously speaking, yes God did give life to us, but he also gave us the freedom to do what we want with it. You control your life and the actions that you take. God made man and man made the world and society that we live in. We were placed in this world and left to establish our own means of survival. If God is the only one to control life and the time that you spend here on earth then there are millions of people playing God everyday.
