Assisted suicide is the suicide of a patient suffering from an incurable disease. “Euthanasia is the act or practice of ending the life of an individual suffering from a terminal illness”. In the 1990 s the epic suicide battle between Jack Kevorkian and many people around the world protesting against him to begin. Dr. Kevorkian is also known as Dr. Death was an American pathologist and euthanasia activist. He has claimed to have done at least 130 assisted suicides. Kevorkian became fascinated by death, and made visits to ill patients. He took photos of their eyes in an attempt to identify their exact moment of death in The 1950 s. Kevorkian qualified as a specialist in the 1960 s, he decided to open his own clinic but fail led. In 1990 Jack Kevorkian made headlines, when taking the life of his first patient in a public park inside a Volkswagen van. Janet Adkins, a 45 year old Alzheimer’s Patient. …show more content…
The right to die should be a matter of personal choice. People are allowed to choose all kinds of thing in our life. Like who we spend the rest of our lives with and what kind of work we want to do. We the people believe that there is a right to life. We must accept that people have a right to dispose of that life whenever they feel the time is right. Many others believe there are people that are healthy enough to decide on suicide. For people that commit suicide, most likely have a mental disorder, or aren't mentally stable. People that are not terminally ill that commit suicide have temporary problems. Terminally ill people know that there is not a fix to there situation. They aren't in a spare of the moment though, they are ill and are going to stay ill until death. More than half of people say they disapprove of physician-assisted suicide. A strong majority say that suicide is properly acceptable for people who are in pain with no hope of getting