e should be allowed to die if they want to. But if so, it's not because they have an absolute right to dispose of themselves if they want to.(Brock 73) Only a fool would minimize the agony that many terminally ill patientendure. And there's no question that by letting them die on request weshorten the period of suffering. But we also shorten their lives. Can youseriously argue that the saving of pain is greater good than the saving oflife? Or that presence of pain is worse than the loss of life? Of course,nobody likes to see a creature suffer, especially when the creature hasrequested a halt to the suffering. But we have to keep our prioritiesstraight. Pro euthanasianists make it sound as though the superhuman efforts madeto keep people alive are not worthy of human beings. What could be morerespectful of human life, than to maintain life against all odds, and against allhope? All of life is a struggle and a gamble. At the gaming table of life, nobody ever knows what the outcome will be. " Indeed, humans are noblest when theypersist in the face of the inevitable. Look at our literature. Reflect on our heroes. They are not those who have capitulated but those who have endured. No, there's nothing undignified against being hollowed out by a catastrophic disease, aboutwrithing in pain, about wishing it would end. The indignity lies incapitulation".(Buchanan 208)...
