For 30 years, explosive, debilitating head pain has dominated Edel Wignell’s life. Earlier this year, the Melbourne woman reached out to ABC News to share her positive view on euthanasia. "The pain doesn't go away. So I'd rather be dead. I've had a wonderful life, it's not as though I'm depressed," Ms Wignell said. "I'm 78, nearly 79, I think it's time." She wishes for a doctor to legally assist her death; however the government refuses her pleas. Every instinct tells us to push on, to continue trying, to keep on living. So life would always be the only choice right? Envision that you have awoken in a hospital bed. You are terminally ill, the agonizing pain will never leave, and you cannot stand to rot away in this unhomely environment, what are your options? None, you would be forced to endure it, for decades even. For too long have ill people and their families suffered, it is time for you, the leaders of our country, to make euthanasia legal. …show more content…
Passive euthanasia is already legal, and is carried out by terminating a medication that is keeping a patient alive, or not performing a lifesaving procedure. The purpose of voluntary euthanasia is to prevent a suffering patient from reaching a devastating point in their lives like this, consequently forcing their loved ones to ‘turn off the machine’. The practice of voluntary euthanasia will be legal in eight countries around the globe and six US states, as of 2016. Australia should be the next country to follow their