ake its course. This is not a form of suicide or murder. Establishing the state of mind, along with the state of terminal illness, is essential to determining whether the patient should be a candidate for euthanasia. If you are not mentally stable and you want to die, then you are arrested and mental help or counseling is sought out for you. If you are mentally stable and you want to die, then you must be terminally ill, or in a great deal of pain. Mentally ill people often can not be responsible for their own well being. We have a right to let someone die from natural causes, even when we have the resources to keep them alive. There are many people who believe that technological advances should not be used in order to inhibit the natural order of things, such as death. Doctors and lawmakers, who want to do everything in their power to make a person live, should not stand in the way of these wishes. If we believe that God is in charge of life and death, then we should also believe that it is wrong for us to decide when others and ourselves should die. Religious freedom is part of the American way. Our rights are being alienated when people are not allowed to make their own decisions. The terminally ill should be allowed to die a natural death, and if that means pulling the plug, so be it. If we can respect the patients’ natural and religious rights, then we should be able to respect their decisions, not the decisions of the courts. This, indeed, is the foundation of America. ...
