Dying With Dignity

At some point or another, we’ve all heard or spoken the phrase “it’s my life, it’s my decision”, however, when the end is in sight that philosophy no longer seems to apply. As animals grow older and become ill and in pain until it often reaches the point where euthanizing the animal seems almost kind and more humane, and thus that’s what happens. However, when people reach the same stage in their lives, sometimes even consumed by disease such as cancer or Lou Gehrig’s disease the option to willingly end their own lives by medicinal means is not provided. In fact it’s considered suicide, which is illegal. As humans we are not given the choice to come into this world, but when the times comes for us, should we not have the choice to leave it? Nobody wants to live out their life in pain and suffering, waiting for death to slowly and eventually take them. They want to be remembered with dignity and with strength, if that is there choice, then who is anybody else to deny them that?