Suicide V.S. Assisted Suicide

Suicide V.S. Assisted Suicide

There was a blustering bang on the door triggering Katy to jump out of fear. She ran to the door and stared through the peek hole for a total of 10 seconds. She finally sees the badge of a police officer. This night she happened to be watching her little brother while her parents were out for a romantic dinner. She opened the door expecting it to be a well-trusted cop. As she twisted the door slowly opening it, a man with a ski mask and gun was pointing straight to the center of head. He stood waiting at the door with a smirk on his face. He pulled and dragged her into the nearest bedroom next to her brother. He raped and beat her over and over. Not worrying about herself, she tried to escape the strong leash of this man on top of her, so she could save the young life of her helpless brother. The little boy cried for her help while she toke the beating of a 43 year old man. Each punch to her face put her deeper into a coma. She blinked hard to fight back the pain.

The next morning she woke to men lifting her into a bed. Her head was spinning; she was sweating, and trying to put the clues together before she fell back into a coma. The SVU unit was all around her building. She looked down and saw the blood rushing from her body. There were paramedics forming around her to come and put pressure on the wound.

She woke up with the pain once again pouring back; each second she was awake, it hurt more. Her mother was holding her hand tears pouring down her face. The words she said, Katy would never forget, "Your brother is gone. Someone took him." There was absolutely no concern about what happened to her. It was almost like she wasn't sitting in a hospital bed, waking up from a coma for the first time in 48 hours.

Each day she goes to school, soccer, and back home, she has to deal with the taunting feeling that she was the reason her little brother was gone. The happy Katy was gone. All of her peers called her a slut because she lost her virginity earlier. They had absolutely no care in the world that she was raped and had a reoccurring nightmare of the night. Her parents couldn't even look at her anymore. She used self-mutilation for pain. It made her feel better. The pain soon felt normal. She needed something stronger. One last rush of pain. She decided to kill herself.

After reading this particularly depressing situation, do you still have no respect for the people that do commit suicide?

The difference is very clear between the two types of suicide. Some say that assisted suicide is understandable, but suicide is frowned upon. Assisted Suicide is defined as this; the suicide of a patient suffering from an incurable disease, effected by the taking of lethal drugs provided by a doctor for this purpose. Suicide is defined as this; the action of killing oneself intentionally.

When I asked one of my peers about the difference of assisted suicide and suicide she responded, "I totally get why a suffering patient would want to do that. She/he is going to end up dying anyway. Their families rather see them relieved of the pain, then watching them slowly die every day." My other interviewee responded, "It is way more complicated than that. What is someone is depressed and feels they have nothing else to live for? They constantly have a reminder that they have no one, or are going through pain. I mean, I don't think they should just go kill themselves, but it is just as understanding as assisted suicide."

I completely agree with my second interviewee's response. Both assisted suicide and suicide are equal amounts of the pain. The huge difference between the two, in my opinion, is that one is emotion pain and another is physical pain. People turn to suicide in attempt to try and escape from a situation that seemed impossible to deal with or to get relief from really bad thoughts or feelings. With assisted suicide, its physically ill individuals who believe they have the right to die.

Pain, depression, or strong emotional pressure make it exceptionally difficult