Argument

My Claim: Doctor assisted suicide should be legal for terminally ill patients.

Text Message: If you know you're going to die, would you want to live through the pain? Assisted suicide should be allowed in severe cases. Put yourself in that situation.

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All over the world, people have been diagnosed with terminal illnesses. Some don't feel it, yet some do. Imagine excruciating pain, or losing control of simple bodily functions such as the movement of our joins as MS does. If these people are going through this and don't want to bear it anymore, why force them. Terminally ill patients should have the right to choose whether or not they want to end their lives rather than suffer through the last few, painful moments of their lives. If I were watching my mom deteriorate before my eyes, I wouldn't want her to only have the choice to suffer.

Terminally ill patients shouldn't have to live through the last moments of their lives miserably. If they would rather not suffer, doctors should be allowed to assist in the suicide, helping the patients to die quick and peaceful, rather than slow, painful, and miserable. Some of these people resort to killing themselves, which is a bigger mess, and worse for the family, so why not allow them to seek help in doing so.

What I'm trying to say is there should be a choice that people can make. The choice between suffering and living, or ending it and dying.