Alise Fife April 10, 2014 Writers Craft

No one has the right Assisted suicide is when the doctor aids a sick patient by helping them end their life. It has been in the news recently when on Sunday, February 23, 2014, the Canadian Liberal Party voted for the motion of assisted suicide, which could put pressure on Liberal leader Justin Trudeau to include it in his platform during next years federal election. Wendy Robbins a Liberal delegate said on February 23th that It covers health, it covers justice. We think we have the right to die with dignity. Assisted suicide is a good idea, with many limits of course. Like how sick you are, age, how long you have been with a certain doctor...ect. The Supreme Court last addressed the issue in 1993, when it delivered a landmark 5-4 ruling against physician-assisted suicide. Assisted suicide has a lot of controversy because of the element of suicide in it. Many religions have suicide as a sin, and also with killing oneself is against the law, it is a difficult motion to pass. In the past, Sue Rodriguez was an advocate of assisted suicide. She had a life crippling disease that at the end of it would make her not capable of taking care of herself. She tried to get permission for a law to be passed that a doctor could help her kill herself, but the law was never passed and ended up killing herself in the end. It is the right decision to be able to have assisted suicide. Its good to have the option, and if someone chooses that over lying in bed then that is their decision. People tend to have this idea that they know what is best for society, but instead of letting society progress into new ideas, they are trapped in this revolving door of just wanting to be popular. Besides the fact that one of the reasons suicide is illegal is because if a mother called 911 saying she thinks her daughter is going to kill herself, then they only have the right to come in the door and stop the girl by force because it is against the law. But besides that reason, suicide should be legal. Who is the government to say that someone cannot end their own life? The government should not have that sort of right. A man who identified himself as a doctor at the vote on February 23, states that The danger is, the more we focus on ending life, the less we focus on ending pain and suffering or the use of technologies to overcome disability and loss of function. This point is also valid, but the hope of finding new solutions would not end because another out of the many solutions has come to the plate. Progress is always being made, and giving Canadians more freedom with their choice of life is a great step in progress. If they are just waiting to die, what is the problem of them taking control and doing it themselves? No one has the right to tell someone that they are not allowed to kill themselves to be able to stop pain. Pain is so terrible, and hard, and people should have the right to end their life is they feel its necessary. Its their choice.

Not yours.