Thursday, January 15, 2009

Montana third state to legalize assisted suicide

Summary
In Helena, Montana a judge ruled that assisted suicide is legal. What is assisted suicide? It is when a doctor or someone in the medical field gives a person medication or drugs that will kill them but peacefully when the person is mentally capable of giving consent to the drugs.
Opinion
I agree with Tyler Ostendorf on this controversy. If a person is in agonizing pain and terminally ill why would they want to endure that pain. I actually had this happen to a person i know. The man was handicapped and fell down the stairs then had a brain clot that was fatal. He was being kept alive by machines but could still barely talk and think. I went to visit him and he looked like he had already past on. He was capable of making the decision to pull the plug which is what him and his family decided on because he knew he was going to die and had enough of the pain.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28085809/

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