Assisted Suicide

first of all agree on the rules and I like to start either with a real life story of of two twins from Belgium where assisted suicide is legal from 2002 the two twins born deaf become blind on the age of 45 choose to die with 'dignity" the two men were not approaching the end of their lives but they ended it legally assisted suicide can encourage people without a deadly disease to take their lives away and the twins meet the legal requirement of assisted suicide TAKING THE RIGHT DECISION also in Belgium children has the right to take their lives with assisted suicide but children has not the mental capability and the experience to make such decision secondly statistics say that Also a sudden change in brain function caused by illness is called delirium a person's ability to think and make the right decision may change within hours derilium and problem with thinking are commune i the last weeks of life when this happen people may not be capable to make complex decision in as tidy more than hospital patients who appeared normal were given a decision-making test. Of those patients, 50 could not make standard medical decisions. Of the 50 patients, the medical team identified only 12 as unable to make decisions. Other studies (2) show that memory and judgment problems can last long after the causes of delirium have been treated and the delirium reversed. Often, health care providers don"t detect these difficulties, especially if patients have good social skills and are not asked questions to test their judgment. Depression can affect decisions. Up to 25% of people with serious chronic illness are depressed, but often it is not identified and not treated because of the assumption that it is normal to feel depressed with a life-limiting illness. Many people feel down when they get bad news or their health gets worse. But feeling depressed enough to want to die is not normal even with a life-limiting illness. Neither is feeling hopeless, helpless or worthless. These are signs of depression. In one study (3), 200 terminally ill patients were asked about their desire to die. Researchers found that of those who had a strong desire to die, 59% were depressed. Studies have also shown that anxiety can make people want to die. Treatment of mood and anxiety disorders can often help people feel much better and change their minds about hastening death. people who ask death also can be influenced by other people they may feel they are placing too big a burden on their family and their death would relive that burden in most situations the family doesn't consider care giving a burden and really want to help religious believes in most religion and like mine (Islam) assisted suicide is not allowed because your life is given and taken by god and suicide is murder and birth and death are part of the life process and in most religion the community should care for people who dying Islam's views on such issues as assisted suicide and euthanasia also are influenced by the belief that suffering and other difficulties might be beneficial, Shabana says. "There is this notion that you don"t always know what"s good for you," he says, "so it may be right that you should go through some kind of difficulty that tests your faith." Indeed, Shabana says, "in the Islamic tradition, end-of-life suffering is seen as a way to purify previous sins so that by the time you meet God, you do so in a [more pure] state." so the family will not accept it even if this is not their decision because of religious believes also Christianity is against assisted suicide because in Christian beliefs life is given by god http://www.bbc.co.uk... http://www.pewforum.org... http://www.virtualhospice.ca... http://worldnews.nbcnews.com... sorry for my bad english im tunisian so i don't use english often