Assisted Suicide And How It Affects People - 1549 Words

My subject is about assisted suicide and how it affects people, I chose this subject because I wanted to find out why people would even consider this an option in life. I first started reading articles about some cases where it has been common at or which states allowed this type of practice. My topic is important because it affects someone’s life, it also affects the people in the person life. The reason I picked this topic is because when I first read the title I was shocked that someone wanted to die, that they wanted to end their life so fast but I soon realized a lot of things, it’s basically a complicated subject and it has its pros and cons. Assisted suicide is legal in Oregon and it was legalized in California September 2015(Ian†¦show more content†¦Most people that don’t even go to church see it as a sin, while those who attend church didn’t really see it as wrong, Ian Lovett decided to address the fact and said â€Å"It allows freedomâ € , but the real question is how does it allow freedom? , Ian continued on to say that everyone should have a choice. Reading Auto-Biographies , I’m going to tell you about a personal story from my friends mother perspective , Her name was Jada Hilton , She was forty years old and she was diagnosed with cancer during the summer of 2014 , she didn’t have long to live so her daughter and I spent as much time as possible with her , one day we came home and she wasn’t there , no one claimed to know where she was , we soon found out that she had been planning to put herself to rest , she already had planned it , so my friend had to move to Oregon , we skyped every day until it was the day of her planned death . At the time it was hard to wrap my head around it , that she wanted to die , I was young and really didn’t understand the point of wanting to die , but in reality it was choosing when to die and how It would happen . I decided to look up personal stories and see what others might be going through. Brittany Maynard, She was diagnosed with cancer and decided that she want ed to die on her own terms. Brittany and her Husband decided to move to Oregon to let Brittany have that type of decision. The Dying with Dignity