Physician-assisted suicide has always been a controversial topic, and over the years, debate has intensified in the United States over whether or not it should be legal. The campaign to legalize physician-assisted suicide has been under way since the 1970s and recently began to gain steam. At the present time, the practice of physician-assisted suicide is legal in only one state (Oregon) in the United States. Patients that have decided that they want to die …showed first 75 words of 497 total…

…showed last 75 words of 497 total…never easy to grant a patient the right to die, but it is harder still for the patient to make that initial decision. Even proponents of physician-assisted suicide will agree that life is a precious gift to be cherished and preserved in every way possible. But when every effort to prolong life has proved unsuccessful and the potential for a meaningful life has been exhausted, a patient should have the legal right to physician-assisted suicide.