Euthanasia, also know as assisted suicide, is when a patient who is suffering from an incurable disease commits suicide by taking lethal drugs provided by a doctor. Assisted suicide is currently illegal in Canada, but should be legal by February 5, 2016.
The majority of canadians are fine with the idea, but there are still some people who disagree with the idea of assisted suicide. To be exact, 86% of approximately 616 000 people say yes the the idea, and 14% say no.
In my opinion, I think that if a person is suffering with a disease that can't be cured, they should have a right to decide if they want to live with it. I believe that we should be in control of our own bodies, and be able to make that decision.
There is also the idea that the patients deciding to end their lives are not in sound mental state. But there's a process to this. Before the patients are able to completely say their opinion they have to go through a series of pyschological tests to make sure they are in mental state, and the doctors need to be sure there is no change of recovery.
What's your opinion on this? Do you think people with an incurable disease should have to live through it, or be able to make the choice to end their life?
The majority of canadians are fine with the idea, but there are still some people who disagree with the idea of assisted suicide. To be exact, 86% of approximately 616 000 people say yes the the idea, and 14% say no.
In my opinion, I think that if a person is suffering with a disease that can't be cured, they should have a right to decide if they want to live with it. I believe that we should be in control of our own bodies, and be able to make that decision.
There is also the idea that the patients deciding to end their lives are not in sound mental state. But there's a process to this. Before the patients are able to completely say their opinion they have to go through a series of pyschological tests to make sure they are in mental state, and the doctors need to be sure there is no change of recovery.
What's your opinion on this? Do you think people with an incurable disease should have to live through it, or be able to make the choice to end their life?