Physician-Assisted Death

It is a topic often discussed with opinions being highly polarized. It's either you support it or are against and rarely do you fin any middle ground. This is the topic of Euthanasia or, in a more politically correct sense, physician-assisted death. Proponents of Euthanasia often favour it because it allows an individual ,who is almost always diagnosed with a non-treatable terminal illness, to choose where there die, who is with them when they die and the most peaceful and pain-free manner in which they may pass. Opponents to Euthanasia almost always use the religious justification that it is wrong because it violates the commandment of "Thou shalt not kill" and they view it as a form of murder/suicide.

With all that being said, I am in favour of physician-assisted dying as it allows a person to pass on with as much dignity as possible. It allows them to leave this plain of existence as a favorable version of themselves rather than a shadow and empty shell of a person dying on a hospital bed after months, if not of years, of painful and unsuccessful treatment, It seems as my view is also shared by the state of California as a bill recently passed titled, "The California End-of-Life Options Act" which would legalize physician-assisted dying allows for exactly this. The link below delves more into the proposed law and it's ramifications.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-heilig/physicianassisted-dying-h_b_7736606.html