Right-To-Die

Running head: RIGHT-TO-DIE
Right-To-Die
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While in my teen years, I underwent a traumatizing life having seen my parents
experience tormenting lives due to various illnesses. This, in turn, made me endure similar
challenges having seen the kind of lives they were leading. No one in life would like to see
people they love especially their parents pass through gruesome lives due to terminal illnesses.
Such experience with my folks made change my mind and had a perception and belief that
individuals should have the freedom of choosing when to die.
In my career as a judge, I have come across a close to a similar situation to what I
experienced back in my teenage years. A doctor administering a lethal dose of morphine to a
terminal cancer patient. With pressure mounting from the public and the family has taken the
same stand, I am only left as a judge to behave differently from others who believe that those
undergoing such lives should not have an option to choose right-to-die at their own will. I have
to act professionally and differentiate between beliefs and professional acts.
I firmly believe that the right to die should be a personal choice since humans have been
able to choose what happens to them. I also think that there should be changes in the law to allow
those with severe medical conditions to have assisted suicide when they face painful symptoms.
Most countries in the West, have had medical practitioners who perform assisted death illegally;
hence it’s better to legalize acts of euthanasia to have it under control (Hughes, 2017). Most of
the old or dying patients view themselves as a burden to their caregivers or society which usually
is a common expression wish to die after anguish. Buchbinder (2018) reiterates that patients
choose right-to-die have a strong will, are well informed, and they do not succumb to forms of
pressure.