Legalize Euthanasia

    Euthanasia can be easily defined as: the act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die by withholding extreme medical measures. Sounds reasonable, but is it morally just or just suicide? I believe that a dying person has every right to decide their path of death if they are given that choice. If you lose the right to end your suffering, you might as well lose the right to control your own life. And if you lose control over your own life, what do you have control over?
    A doctor's function has changed over time. In the past, the doctor was the person who, besides being your friend, treated the diseases. Now a doctor is a stranger who combats diseases, but he/she is not always your friend. What will never change is their constant struggle against death. However,their job is not only to prevent death but also to  improve their patients' quality of life. Many times, there is nothing a doctor can do to prevent death, especially if a patient has a terminal disease. All the patient and doctor can do is wait for death to arrive. This waiting period can be very painful for the patient and their family. Not practicing euthanasia at the request of the dying person is violating a person's rights and increasing the suffering.
    Deciding between suffering through a terminal illness or ending your suffering peacefully is a personal decision. Neither the doctors nor the government have the power to decide if you should live or not. Since it is not their life and they are not in your situation, they cannot tell you what is or isn't the right decision. In fact, many of the people who seek this option, hate and fear what is happening to them. It's the ultimate loss of control and dignity. It might sound like suicide but all these people want is to be in control of their death just as they were in control of their life.
    We are given the right to the liberty to decide our career, what car we want to drive, our religion, and even our sex preference. Why should the government not give us the right to decide if we want to live being sick or not? That should be the first right above all others. It is not logical that we can choose in all those other decisions if we cannot first choose to live or die.Physician-assisted euthanasia is a compassionate choice for those who suffer and have reached a clear decision to end their lives peacefully. Anything less is a form of betrayal.
    Many times we do not have the money to pay for the needed medical care not knowing whether the patient is going to get any better. Euthanasia is certainly cheaper for a health plan to cover a prescription for lethal drugs once rather than years of expensive life-prolonging measures. In a way, we are just wasting time and money on a situation that, chances are, won't improve at all.
    Nowadays doctors have the ability, and are legally allowed, to grow human beings artificially in labs. Who gave them that right? The government did. If doctors have the right to create life, why not end it as well, especially when the person desires it. Euthanasia should be legally practiced because it stops not just one person, but a group of people from suffering any longer than they need to. A doctor is supposed to improve the quality of life for his/ her patients. But that quality of life is defined by the patient, not the doctor or government.
    I have never been in this situation myself, but I will support anyone who seeks this to better their lasts days of life. Choosing how we will die is not an option alot of us get. I think it's safe to say, that most of us want to die at home, surrounded by our family, and to just drift off peacefully. That is probably the best argument to legalize Euthanasia: so that we may all be able to die when we're really old, and pooping in diapers again, that we can die in the most peaceful way possible.