The Experience, Mystery, and Controversy Surrounding the Ending of Life

The Experience, Mystery, and Controversy Surrounding the Ending of Life
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The experience, mystery, and controversy surrounding the ending of life.
Gone are when people had to die a natural death or untimely death. Many people have decided to choose how and when they are to die, and this is identified as dying with dignity. In some states, physician-assisted suicide is allowed, while in some, it is illegal; in some societies, the aspects of the death of dignity are ethical, while in others, it is not. This is identified in a program by Bill Moyer called A death of One’s Own, which shows how the different Americans face the complexities of the end of life and the debate over doctor-assisted suicide. The program mainly focuses on patients, their families, and doctors and does not forget the most challenging decision they have to make to end one’s life BillMoyers.com, n.d.).
All three persons in the video are terminally ill, and they wish to die in a peaceful and comfortable state and place, which is identified as a good death. The people in the video had no other choice than to die because there was no hope that any of the illnesses they had would benefit by any chance cure, and they had to suffer throughout up to when the doctors had suggested they would die. People like Jim Witcher, who is suffering from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) that robs him of his physical body, are afraid of what would be done to keep him more alive, and he knows the kind of death that he is headed and wants to control it through medication as he does not want to suffer or face a painful death(BillMoyers.com, n.d.). Jim is faced with two problems in ma...