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[cherrychick8917]

what is wrong with me?? seriously maybe i am bipolar. like yesterday i was jsut kidding, but now i thought about it and like 1/2 the time i'm super happy all smiley and shit, and the othe half i'm just so out of it, like when i';m alone in my house or ,y sister pretends that i dot exist.. *sigh* i really wanted to go on the bike ride but then i got

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[baffledlindsay]

As little children, everyone played without fear, sometimes falling and getting a “boo-boo” or spraining an ankle, but healing with the help of a flashy multicolored cast or cartoon covered band-aid. Everyone has felt pain before. They have gotten through it with the knowledge that pain goes away quickly, and everything will get better. But for some people, this pain never goes away, and those few seconds of mind consuming ache that everyone experiences turns not into minutes or hours, but will last their entire lifetime.

[baffledlindsay]

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously in 1997 that citizens do not have the option of physician assisted suicide except for in the state of Oregon, although a strict, ineffective case by case court ruling is allowed ( Biard 1). Oregon’s law states that the patient may request assisted suicide if they are terminally ill and have a life expectancy of under six months, and two doctors have claimed that they are not depressed (Legal 1.) Citizens with terminal illnesses should have the right to choose whether they live their life in constant pain or terminate their life, and physicians should be able to help them fulfill their wishes legally without being considered murderers in the United States. As patients who want to die earlier than they would with their illness, life accomplishments, goals, and real feeling can never be fulfilled, there is no need to prolong pained living if death is inevitable, and loved ones should be relieved the stressful emotional and financial state and be able to begin the healing process.

[baffledlindsay]

Because someone living in endless pain can never fulfill life accomplishments, goals, and real feeling, it is their right to ask for assisted suicide. It is the patient’s personal choice on whether they want to live their stunted life or bypass everything and die. Those with terminal illnesses may want to leave life with dignity, not leave being weak and hurt. A TIME Magazine article from March 27, 2005, explaining the affect of the legalization of assisted suicide in Oregon, describes a situation proving that doctors who provide lethal medicines to terminally ill patients are not killers, but are helping. Sixty-five year old terminal lung cancer patient Steve Mason has chosen to end his life using Nembutal, a drug given to him by a doctor, a doctor who would be criminalized and charged for murder in forty nine states. Mason expressed his gratitude that he could die with dignity. “And at some point in the next few months, when terminal lung cancer has spread to his liver or brain, when his breath is short and he feels too sick to

[baffledlindsay]

Second, it is unfair and immoral to keep patients in excruciating pain if they will inevitably die. Death is a compassionate way to relieve suffering, and prolonging hopeless pain and illness a few days before death when the patient does not want to is not right. Professor Chmerinsky, a teacher at the University of Southern California, recalls his father’s attempt to end his pain ten years ago. “He was far too weak to get out of his hospital bed, let alone act to end his own life. He either was in great pain or sedated into constant sleep. I cannot understand the constitutional issue of a right to physician assisted suicide without having in mind the searing image of my father in his hospital bed, gasping for each breath, and wanting to end his pain. I cannot imagine any interest that the State had in keeping my father alive for several additional days” (Legal 1). Also, there are many incurable illnesses in today’s world that cause pain before they brutally take the infected person’s life. Though an extreme, the ebola virus has an

[baffledlindsay]

hope this made your weekend a little better?
feel better <33 lindsay

thank you!!

[cherrychick8917]

wow your speech is amaziong!! i wish mine was half as good. i was just about to summarize the TIME article.. but hey, maybe i'll just use yours, lol jk. my speech is 15 mins and its supposed to be 12 (at the most).. what do i do?????? ahhh!!! thanks again though!!!

[hfeather189]

haha yay skipping. and wandering the hallways!

dont worry, your speech will definitely be better than mine was.