Euthanasia should be allowed
First of all, lets go back to 2002, where Diane Pretty was suffering with advanced stages of motor neurone disease. She was a mother-of-two and had began to experience breathing difficulties, just after she had lost her right-to-die court challenge in the European Court of Human Rights. Her supporters always described Diane Pretty as a “tough lady” – but even in the months that she was in the public eye, her motor neurone disease was notably progressing. Diane always said that she wanted her husband to help her to commit suicide because she feared the choking and asphyxia often caused by her disease. Diane lived her life in fear of what would happen next. Do you think that this lady should have suffered any longer? Shouldn’t Diane have the right to end her suffering? Diane Pretty’s life would never get any better, so why should it have got worse?

Imagine yourself, in a few years time. You can’t walk, you can’t see, and you can hardly breathe let alone speak. You lived a good life before, but now it seems so far away. You are in such unbearable pain that you can’t even cry. You can no longer complete simple tasks on your own and there is no way that you could function without assistance. Life has no meaning to you anymore. Although your family is there to support you, you wonder if ending your life could be the solution to a massive problem. In reality, we don’t need to imagine this situation, these types of cases are happening all around the world. This condition is all too real for too many people. Shouldn’t these people be able to make their own choices, shouldn’t they have control of their lives? Everything has been taken away from them, so why should we take away their right to die as well?