Justice in Death

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suicide shouldn’t be persecuted because they are fulfilling the wishes of an individual who is suffering in a hopeless medical situation.
There may be a large portion of citizens who disagree with the idea of assisted suicide because they believe that many requests come from people who are tired of living and not really ill. This is usually not the case in assisted suicides. Requests for assisted suicide come largely come from tragic cases where people have painful and incurable illnesses. Many people who are tired of living resort to other means to try to end their lives, and usually do not ask for help or even discuss their problems with others. If an individual who has a grim outlook on life asked a physician for help with their suicide, that physician would realize that the person had no illness. They would recommend counseling for that person and recommend they tell someone about their issues which might end up saving that person’s life.
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members as it is on the patient. The family has to watch as someone that they love endures through a painful death and in particular cases pay for the bills to extend their suffering.
This situation rang true for my family and I about 7 years ago when we had to decide whether to let a member of our family live or pass away. Before her death, my aunt was in a vegetative state for 2 months after many of her vital organs began to shut down. Before the vegetative state, she was diagnosed with cerebral palsy which kept her from being able to take care of herself or live a normal life. Once she entered the vegetative state, the doctors told my family that there was no hope that she ...

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