The Right To Know,Then To Say No

My Reactions:

According to the “The Right To Know, Then To Say No”, a new legislation, called the Terminal Patients’ Right To Know End- Of- Life Option Act was signed into law last month ago to oppose a 1992 state ballot measure and a 2005 bill that would have permitted physician-assisted suicide, which is currently legal only in Oregon. The act is the first in the nation to provide the information for the terminally ill patients about end- of –life options, including hospice, palliative care, refusing or withdrawing life-prolonging treatments, and making the choice to refuse food and hydration. This act made the writer to end her mother’s life with this manner.

In my opinions, I have placed a high value on life and our life is valuable, but I have never understood why the writer seeks the extrication with this stupid way, let alone the person is her mother. Mother is a person who take care us painstakingly since we are the infant. She devotes her whole life for her children and why her daughter makes this choice to give up. Although the patient is always complain that they want to far away from the disease and the pain, but I think they need more support from the family. We want to encourage them with a positive attitude. Maybe it has a miraculous drug will appear and save her. How we know? If the patients make the decision without enough information and considerate, I think it is not worth to die, because it is the only for a person.

Besides, I think this manner of death is same with the forms of physician- assisted suicide. It is just a difference way to express it. Two of these manners are the terminal ill patients give up their right to survive. One of it is relying on the medicines and another one is stopping of eating and drinking. It teaches the patients to suicide when they face the disease. I think these laws may be canceled because it violates the natural law. In the facts, families and the doctors must mutually cooperate to build up the confident of the patient and accept the medical treatment. What are the functions of the medicine?

This act likes a murder! It teaches the person to flee from the reality. Why we can face our problem even the death bravely? I think everyone has the right to choose, then to say “Yes, I want to live!”