and the presence of critical mental capacities such as understanding, intending, and voluntary decision making capacity. People demand what they want or need as a matter of rights consequently there is a right to health care, a right to education or employment, abort of enjoy pornography, or to commit suicide or sodomy. A right to dance naked, a right to be born, a right to have not been born, and most recently a right to die. A right whether legal or moral is not identical to a need or desire or an interests or capacity. I may have both a need and a desire for, and also an interest in, the possessions of another, and the capacity or power to take them by stealth or force yet I can hardly be said to have a right to them. Not everything we are free to do, morally or legally, do we have a right to do. Their mere assertion of a claim or demand, or the stipulation of a right, is insufficient to establish it; making a claim and actually having a rightful claim to make are not identical. In considering an alleged right to die, we must be careful to look for a justifiable liberty or claim and not merely a desire interest, power, or demand. People are in fear of the overpowering influence that medical technology has on a persons ability to die. New concerns regarding the end of life have come into context. Due to the power of medicine to preserve and prolong life, many of us are fated to end our once flourishing lives in years of debility and disgrace. Machines like respirators and other powerful technologies can all by themselves, hold comatose and others that are severely debilitated on this side of life and death, many who would be dead are alive because for sustained mechanical intervention which brings up the issue of why should the right to die be asserted? 1.Fear of prolongation of dying due to medical intervention.2.Fear of living too long without fatal illness to carry one off.3.Fear of degradations of senility and dependenc...
