The release of Dr. Kevorkian from a Michigan penitentiary today renews, if only briefly, the assisted suicide debate. I support a person's right to make such a choice. The government has no place forcing a perfectly competent yet terminally ill person to endure, in some cases, the kind of pain that requires a drug-induced coma. Those who criticize doctors like Kevorkian, who are complying with a patient's request, accuse him of playing God, but are those critics not playing the same game? They want to step in and decide what is best for someone who is fully capable of deciding what is best for themselves.
The pro-choice groups are not advocates of pleasure killings, as the pro-life groups love to imply. Life should be safe-guarded, but not merely for a group's self-righteous crusade. There should be appropriate legislation in place that allows competent, terminally ill patients to go through a certain screening process that will enable them to peacefully end their lives, as opposed to the extremely painful, bed-ridden state in which some spend their last days.
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