Right to Die
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The Right to Die
In this day and age of medical technology the right to die is a difficult journey to walk. The quality of life should play a major decision in the right to die. It is not only going to affect everyone around you, but it will affect you and the person you are deciding for.
Everyday when I walk into work I think to myself, "who will I watch walk out of this place, who am I going to watch suffer, and who am I going to watch die?" I know it is a morbid subject to think of, but I work at a hospital on a critical care floor and I see things I never thought I would see at my age or even in my life. I am a nursing assistant and I take care of people, not only because it is my job, but because I love the fact of taking care of someone.
Prior to working at the hospital, I've always thought that no one should want to die or not want someone to help them so they will not die. When I started working, it made me think differently, keeping someone alive just because you cannot let them go or it would be too hard to accept. Now I think, why keep them suffering and going through life not knowing which way they are going to go. If they are lying in bed not knowing who they are or what is going on, is that quality of life?..