I agree 100% with someone choosing the right to die depending on if they have a terminal illness or not. I think that as a free thinking and rational human being I should decide if I want to leave this world on my own terms and in as little pain as possible if I decide to do so. I have the feeling that people who argue against people being able to end their own lives have never stepped a foot into a hospice or a palliative care ward in which people are living out their existence in what can only be described as doped up misery in a lot of cases (not all but a lot of them that I have seen). It is the responsible thing to do to allow these people to make this choice rather than waiting for nature to ravish them physically and often mentally, spiritually and psychologically in the process.
While I don't believe in an afterlife or a god and I will make no qualms about that (I guess in a weird way I hope there is a god, but I completely doubt the existence of one) I think that my opinion is based on the human aspect of suffering and the belief that there is a fate worse than death.
The only issue I had with Dr. Kevorkian was that it sounds like he did things in a hasty manner and some of the patients did not have a fatal disease.
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