Assisted_Suicide_Bad_Public_Policy

Assisted Suicide Bad Public Policy Assisted Suicide: Bad Public Policy The struggle to keep assisted suicide from becoming legal has dwindled in the past years up until this year due to the Terri Schiavo case in Florida. There have been many American euthanasia movements in the past but this was a highly televised case evolving assisted suicide. There is only one state within the United States that has legalized assisted suicide and that is Oregon. There is one country that permits euthanasia and that is Holland. As a nation we need to maintain our stand against assisted suicide and not allow legalization of this movement. I do not take this subject lightly due to the fact that colon cancer runs in my family and has killed my grandmother, aunt, and uncle at an early age. Having to watch their last days of their lives in a hospital was very hard. My girlfriend of a year now is a nurse at a local hospital and so is her mom so I hear stories of suffering all the time. The issue of end-of-life care needs to be given more serious consideration by all Americans because we will all be affected by this unforeseen tragedy at one time or suicide, assisted, patients, pain, euthanasia, should, ill, terminal, patient, nation, life, hospice, care, another, about, tragedy, suffering, scandal, people, one, issue, feel, dying, due, time, think, physicians, person, option, oath, need, medicine, medication, making, makes, lives