You are visiting the hospice for the twenty-third consecutive day; the soft creak of the linoleum and the gentle hum of the fluorescent lamps in the waiting room greet you as you enter. You are visiting your grandmother, whose lung cancer has metastasized and slowly spread throughout her body; he has already lost movement in his arms. She is the empty shell of the woman she once was; His once bright eyes are steadily fading every day, and his bubbly demeanor has become squashed and icy, and every day before you leave, he will only say: "Kill me." What would you do in this situation? Would you break the law to respect your elder's wishes? It is a cruel reality that we live in when the possibility of choosing the moment of our death, especially for terminally ill patients, is not seen as a personal right to be acted upon, but to be avoided as a taboo. For this reason, assisted suicide, or the commissioning of third parties to provide the materials necessary to commit suicide, should be legalized; It would allow both terminally ill patients and those with lifelong disabilities an escape from the mental, emotional and physical pain of unnecessary treatments, and reduced quality of life, in their final months. The mental anguish felt by patients is a great burden to bear, and the more disfigured or near death these patients are, the heavier it becomes. “It is a painful, insistent reminder to others of their fragility, a recognition that, in the routine of daily life, is routinely repressed. Others cannot help but wish he, and his unwanted lesson, would go away. avoid knowing this about others and wanting it for oneself” (Robert Burt, quoted by Asch 2). Each of these patients becomes attached to their personal… middle of the paper… then goes on to state that the The right to die is a personal matter and while in Britain it is legal to commit suicide, it is illegal to assist in a suicide. He concludes that Parliament should be allowed to legalize assisted suicide Stevens, Kenneth "Oregon's Death with Dignity Act Is Being Abused" The Right ToDie . Jennifer Dorman, Ed. At Issue Series. Greenhaven Press, 2010. Kenneth Stevens begins his article with a description of the Oregon landscape which is immediately followed by mention of the Death with Dignity Act. He goes on to talk about the number of deaths by assisted suicide in the period 1998-2006 and the fear of addiction that pushes patients to choose assisted suicide. Discusses the lack of incentive to care for a patient who has chosen suicide and concludes by stating society's concerns regarding assisted suicide.