Euthanasia is the merciful permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals in a relatively painless way, for reasons of mercy. The term comes from the Greek word meaning "good death." There are many different types of pain an ill patient can experience. It is frightening to think that numbers of terminally ill patients may suffer excruciating pain because of fundamentally strict federal and state laws that prohibit citizens from choosing assisted death. People, …showed first 75 words of 1325 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1325 total…dreadfully. The terminally ill should have the choice of living their lives the way they wish to. They need the option to die early if life gets too unbearable for them to handle. Patients need to become their own advocates for the right they have, a death that ends their suffering. As Martin Luther King said on the eve of his assassination, no one is truly free to live until one is free to die.