The article from The Economist, “The right to die,” argues that the lack of legitimacy when it comes to doctor assisted …show more content…
They are observed through surveys and statistics for example the article states that those who received doctor assisted suicide were “well-educated, insured and receiving palliative care” (“The right to die”) and that in “11 out of the 15 countries [they] surveyed most people favoured extending doctor-assisted dying to patients” (“The right to die”), while also “assisted dying now accounts for about 3% of deaths in the Netherlands” (“The right to die”). Finally the last main point of evidence in the article to support its arguments is that adults are able to make many irreversible changes to their lives except for ending it. From this we can see that the main argument is many people wish for assisted suicide and believe that withholding it is improper, is backed by many proofs which all fall into the belief that people must value