Why active euthanasia and physician assisted suicide should be legalised

摘要

Last month Diane Pretty was refused the legal right to choose the circumstances of her own death. She suffers from motor neurone disease and is experiencing the disintegration of her body. She faces a death that she believes will entail indignity and suffering and physically cannot kill herself. The court has denied her request that her husband be allowed to help her. This decision may be consistent with legal precedent but is morally wrong. That is why the law should be changed.