Euthanasia is known as the practice of deliberately ending a life that frees an individual from an incurable disease or intolerable suffering, also known as a sweet and easy death. Euthanasia is currently a topic of global discussion, but the law does not allow it to be practiced on people. Most people strictly forbid it due to religious or moral beliefs, but most people strongly support euthanasia due to personal experience. Euthanasia should be legalized because patients with a terminal illness are given the choice to end their lives in the most painless way. On October 27, 1997, Oregon was the first state to pass the Death With Dignity Act. This law allows terminally ill patients to ask their doctors for lethal drugs. It is necessary for patients to make two verbal requests and one written request in the presence of a witness. Two doctors must then agree on the patient's diagnosis, prognosis and capabilities. The patient must administer the lethal drug (Nitschke) himself. However, Oregon laws strictly prohibit euthanasia, but what if someone is too sick to write or speak verbally? So what? It is right that a person has to endure 6 months of intensive care before dying just because the law says that even if a person dies soon it is wrong to help them end their suffering. Many people today link euthanasia to euthanasia the famous case of Terri Schiavo, where after 5 years of life support, her husband made a conscious decision to remove her feeding tube and other medications. After Schiavo's death they conducted an autopsy that determined that her brain weighed half that of a healthy human brain - severe damage that left her blind and unable to think... deciding to commit suicide. People who are not depressed. Everyone has the right to commit suicide, because a person has the right to determine what will or will not be done to his body. "Works Cited" Euthanasia Statistics. http://www.statisticbrain.com/eutanasia-statistics/. Statistical Brain, 23 7 2012.Web. October 22, 2013.ProCon.org. "Euthanasia ProCon.org" ProCon.org. 15 October 2013. Web. 30 October 2013. euthanasia.procon.org/>. Nitschke, Dr. Philip. “Death with Dignity in Oregon, Washington, and (Soon) Montana.” Euthanasia and the law in the United States of America. Dr. Philip Nitschke and Web. October 25, 2013. Abby Goodnough, “Slave's Autopsy Says Brain, Withered, Was Incurable,” The New York Times, June 16, 2005. Emanuel, Ezekiel. "Whose right to die? - 97.03."Whose right to die? - 97.03. The Atlantic Monthly Company, March 1997. Web. October 15. 2013.