text: i have a question about suicide? if someone was diagnosed with a terminal illness, should that person (by-law) have the right to choose the end his / her own life? in oregon and the netherlands, there is this thing called "assisted suicide". in those 2 places, the person has this choice to ask a doctor for a pill. then he/she takes the pill that will kill him/her. it is "assisted suicide" because the doctor assists the patient to suicide by giving that patient a prescription of a "death pill."  i actually think that a person should not have the right to end his/her life. why? because when people are ill they can feel like they want to die at that moment. but if they did not give up and survived, later on, they would realize that they were glad that they did not die. so, my answer would be no.