Euthanasia…Crime or Care?

Everyone has the right of choice.  To ask the question, “Do the terminally ill have a right to die,” is like asking if the terminally have the same rights as the well.  On this note, dying is not a “right,” for everyone dies at some point.  The debatable question really is, “Should the terminally ill be euthanized?” 

Procon.org mentions that Americans should enjoy a right in which was enforced by The European Declaration of Human Rights. This right “not to be forced to suffer” should take place in the decision of euthanizing a terminally ill patient. Therefore, forced to live with “excruciating pain” when the patient does not “wish to continue” their life should also be a crime.
          Assisted suicide enables a doctor injecting the patient of a drug that will “painlessly” cause the ill to die.  A definition of “terminally ill” states that for a person to be terminally ill they are expected to live for no more than twelve additional months. Living a life with unbearable pain, with the thought of dying in less than twelve months… Why should it be a crime to “put down” the terminally ill? They are dying and they have to live their remaining life in agonizing pain.  Putting a patient at rest, getting rid of all present and future pain, how can this be wrong?  Isn’t that what doctors are for anyways, to help the patient, to relieve them of their sickness, and in this case, their terminal illness. Maybe euthanasia is the only way. <http://www.idebate.org/debatabase/topic_details.php?topicID=55>