Should assisted suicide be legalized? As the society has been developed, the needs of its people’s freedom and right have also increase. People even touch the domain of death which many other are scare of. The question about legalizing assisted suicide is one the most argumentative topic. Lots of people support the legalization of assisted suicide, but many of them have wrong assumptions about suicide.Many people argue that the decision to kill oneself is a personal choice in which society has no right to interfere. This position assumes that suicide people making autonomous, rational decisions to die, and then claims that society has no right interfering the freely chosen life or death decision that harms no one other than the suicidal individual. However, according to experts who have studied suicide, the basic assumption is wrong.A careful British study found that 93 % of those being studied who committed suicide were mentally ill at the time. A similar St. Louis study found a mental disorder in 94 % of those who committed suicide. These are the evidence that show those who attempt to commit suicide are normally ambivalent. They attempted suicide for reasons other than a settled desire to die, and most of them were the victims of mental disorder.Still, shouldn't it be the person's own choice? Many people may question about that. Almost all of those who attempt suicide do so as a subconscious cry for help, not after a carefully calculated judgment that death would be better than life.As a matter of fact, committing suicide does powerfully call attention to one's plight. The humane response is to mobilize psychiatric and social service resources to address the problems that led to the would-be suicide to such extremity. Typically, this counseling and assistance is successful. One study of 886 people who were rescued from attempted suicides found that five years later only 3.84 % had gone on to kill themselves. As for a...
