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Death with Dignity
Imagine having a terminal form of cancer and having no response to treatment. The physicians say there are only a few months left until death. Does one choose to suffer out the last few months of life with family or end his or her life peacefully, with dignity? Physician assisted suicide should be legal because one should have the choice to end his or her own suffering.
It has been said that physician assisted suicide would change the view of human life and its meaning as life focuses on two major events, birth and death. Some would believe that physician assisted suicide removes compassion from death, in reality physician assisted suicide is compassionate. If the patient wishes he or she may be surrounded by friends and family, who are often the most compassionate people in one’s life, to be present at the time he or she chooses to pass.
Physician assisted suicide, if legalized, would be an option only after treatments were exhausted without success or......

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