Many people would rather die than have someone feed them through a tube or be terminally ill for the rest of their life. “His brother was so tired of hearing him cry and beg for his life to be over, that he ran through the hospital with a gun and shot his brother in his hospital bed,” said Matthew Donnelly’s mom. Many people believe that assisted suicide is only the “right choice” if you are terminally ill or if you have cancer. Although treatment is available, many people cannot pay out of pocket due to lack of income, so they would assume to just end their life thru medications received from a medical doctor. A medical doctor in Mississippi cannot physically say “here’s your medication, you have to take it,” but in Oregon it is legal to practice assisted suicide and euthanasia (History and Debate of Euthanasia …show more content…
A doctor who gives a patient with terminal cancer an overdose of a certain medication to end their life would be considered as assisting the act of carrying out euthanasia. If someone was prescribed a medication for only them to take and a family member passed away because of taking that medication, they can be sent to jail as an accomplice in assisted suicide because it was their medication that killed the victim. Although many people think there are many different category’s for euthanasia, there is only two types of euthanasia: active and passive. Active euthanasia is where a person deliberately interferes in medical issues to end someone’s life, an example would be injecting them with a large dose of sleeping pills or cough medications. Physician assisted suicide has become a much debated issue that today 's society must find an end to. There are many opinions in favor of and also against the legalization of assisted suicide for those with a terminal illness. There were many ideas that made the decision of whether or not assisted suicide should become legalized. Most people would choose not to lie in a hospital bed; hooked up to machines that will keep them breathing. They would rather choose to die a peaceful, easy death instead of suffering from something that they cannot control. I do not personally agree with Dr. Kevorkian’s opinions about assisted suicide because I am a strong