Easy Way Out

The Easy Way Out Legalizing euthanasia in all states protects terminally ill patients’ rights under the 14th Amendment to die with dignity. Euthanasia gives the patient the right to request a lethal dose after a diagnosis of a terminal disease. This helps help people who prefer not to take painkillers and feel numb or people who want to die with dignity and not suffer for however long they have left to live. This would be an option for the people who do not want to watch all the time they have left in the world sit still from the pain; instead, they could end their suffering with a simple request. Families would be able to say their goodbyes and not find out randomly around the estimated date of death. If a terminally ill patient and had

If patients can make a decision on their own within their right minds, then there is no reason for the government to interfere. When giving a patient the choice of euthanasia they would not get the plug pulled on them the first time they ask, “Voluntary euthanasia only for mentally competent, terminally ill individuals who specifically and repeatedly request it”(Society 1). If the death penalty is still legal in certain countries, than assisted suicide or euthanasia should be, too. There are certain people out there living daily with grief and pain, whether it is from old age or terminal illness, so why not let them end the

PAD advocates in New York and Washington State went into federal courts to challenge them. Representing a small number of terminally ill patients (all dead by 1997), the lawyers presented two arguments in the trial and appellate courts. First, "liberty" in the due process clause is a fundamental right. Its scope extended to a terminally ill patient's liberty to die with dignity with the passive assistance of a medical practitioner. Second, the state laws violated the "equal protection" clause of the 14th Amendment because they allowed the withdrawal of life support from a dying patient while denying another dying patient receiving a physician's assistance in dying. For the supporters of PAD, the two actions are not different: in both, death occurs. (Ball