l Americans. The ruling means that they will have to prevent all 50 states from passing permissive laws. If even one state passes such a law, then at least wealthy patients will be able to relocate to that state, satisfy the resident requirements, and obtain help in dying. (Assisted suicide)Is this right? Should people really go that low to die, to relocate to another state, I think that none of the states should have laws? If people are still going to be able to relocate to another state than it should be illegal in all states to have assisted suicide. The Supreme Court decision was very narrow in scope. It only ruled on whether the public had a general right to assisted suicide. The case was originally brought by six terminally ill individuals in intractable pain that wanted access to assisted suicide. However, by the time the court heard legal arguments all six had died. Thus, the court was unable to rule whether that terminally ill individuals should have a right to assisted suicide. Instead, they made a decision on whether citizens generally had that right. (Assisted suicide) The statement above proves that there is no reason why someone should want access to assisted suicide. It states that is if someone does not even life through a trial because they are so sick, they should not have to kill themselves. They just should let God take them when it is time instead of them rushing their deaths. There was a survey of physicians, Dr. Diane Meier of Mount Sinai school of medicine in New York, NY led a survey of 1,092 doctors on the topic of physician assisted suicide. They polled doctors who specialized in aging, infectious diseases, cancer and diseases, which affected kidneys, nerves and lungs. These were the areas of medicine where they felt that request for assisted suicide might commonly surface. They found that: 6.4 percent of those who responded admitted that they had helped at least one patient commit suicide. They speculate th...
