For those of you who don't know me
I am a junior in high school and for my junior paper, a major English assignment on either literary analysis or a controversial topic. I chose the controversial topic because it would be easier to write about if I could find a topic I wanted to do and an opinion I could formulate. Now. My stance on assisted suicide is that it should be legal. This is my opinion simply because in the last year I had to watch my grandfather, a man I loved very very much, suffer for over a year until he died of many health problems.
My mother told me he frequently asked "why couldn't he just die?" and I held his hand and watched him stare at a wall vacantly. I knew on that day that the man I had looked up too, loved so much to listen to his stories and talk with about things ranging from religion to the facts of life, was gone. While I had not been there when he died I felt a tremendous loss when my mother brought myself, my sister and my brother into her room and told us that at 12:00 that morning, my grandfather died.
I remember feeling so incredibly helpless at times because I couldn't do anything. I wouldn't be able to function in school because I would just start crying because I knew he was in a hospice so far away, suffering. He even once fell out of bed, an 80 year old man and wasn't found for 2 hours as he screamed for help.
So...now that that's over. What do you all think of this. I would like to make a note that this is for civil discussion. I don't want to get myself or anyone in trouble or anything. I would just like to know people's opinion on the topic.
To reiterate I am asking if you all think if someone you know is suffering and their pain is not being alleviated should they be able to die if not able to commit the act themselves, with help?
(If any mods have a problem with this thread please contact me with your concerns. Thank you. I like this site, love it and don't mean to break any rules. And if I do, I am sorry and I will accept the punishment.)
I am a junior in high school and for my junior paper, a major English assignment on either literary analysis or a controversial topic. I chose the controversial topic because it would be easier to write about if I could find a topic I wanted to do and an opinion I could formulate. Now. My stance on assisted suicide is that it should be legal. This is my opinion simply because in the last year I had to watch my grandfather, a man I loved very very much, suffer for over a year until he died of many health problems.
My mother told me he frequently asked "why couldn't he just die?" and I held his hand and watched him stare at a wall vacantly. I knew on that day that the man I had looked up too, loved so much to listen to his stories and talk with about things ranging from religion to the facts of life, was gone. While I had not been there when he died I felt a tremendous loss when my mother brought myself, my sister and my brother into her room and told us that at 12:00 that morning, my grandfather died.
I remember feeling so incredibly helpless at times because I couldn't do anything. I wouldn't be able to function in school because I would just start crying because I knew he was in a hospice so far away, suffering. He even once fell out of bed, an 80 year old man and wasn't found for 2 hours as he screamed for help.
So...now that that's over. What do you all think of this. I would like to make a note that this is for civil discussion. I don't want to get myself or anyone in trouble or anything. I would just like to know people's opinion on the topic.
To reiterate I am asking if you all think if someone you know is suffering and their pain is not being alleviated should they be able to die if not able to commit the act themselves, with help?
(If any mods have a problem with this thread please contact me with your concerns. Thank you. I like this site, love it and don't mean to break any rules. And if I do, I am sorry and I will accept the punishment.)
