No matter how you drink your orange juice, eat your fruit and vegetables, and do your exercises, the fact remains that one-day, you will be dead. The only question, given current medical technologies -is when. A person should have the right to decide when to die, especially if he/she is in the advanced suffering stages of a critical disease that has no cure. But what role should doctors play in assisting a patient's death? …
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…discretion, another person should have the right to end it for us, as an act of compassion. Works Cited Driedger, Doyle. "Everyone knows it happens." Maclean's 9 March 1998: 50-51. Huttman, Barbara. "A Crime of Compassion." Models for Writers. New York: St. Martines, 1998. 233-234. Maier, Thomas. "Death By Choice." Newsday 6 November 1997: A5 "Should doctors help patient die?" Glamour May 1997: 199 Smith, Wesley J. "Death Wars." National Review 14 July 1997: 36 Ubell, Earl. "Should Death Be a Patient's Choice?" Parade 9 February 1992: 25