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The choice of life: Does a person have the right to decide between life and death? Should a patient be allowed to take the easy way out and get help from a doctor to commit suicide, or die according to their destiny? There is a major clash of opinions between the people who think that assisted suicide is a criminal offense and people who support the idea. The majority says that assisted suicide is a criminal act and should be banned . This position was rooted in the belief that such an act as euthanasia is “fundamentally incompatible with the physicians role as a healer.” The debate is that when a person is at a dead end, either in a coma or having been diagnosed with a terminal disease that ends in death, should that person be able to have the right to choose to die by an assisted suicide. The controversy of doctors taking the lives of their patients is still indigestible even in this technologically advanced world where practices such as cloning and animal organ donation occurs. Although the word suicide is the correct word to use, it should not be called suicide. Suicide is a destruction of one's own body. When a doctor helps to end a patient's life who is in unending pain after the patient asks for an end of their lif