In the United States, a seventy-nine-year-old man with Alzheimer's is kept alive in a vegetative state. He has been taking it for six months and can no longer eat on his own. The doctor inserted an oral feeding tube, which causes great discomfort to the old man. Sometimes he desperately tries to drag the tube out, but without success due to atrophy of the muscles. This man has no known close relatives and cannot make any decisions on his own. He is suffering a slow death. Earlier in life he had expressed a wish that he would rather die than succumb to something like this. With the advancement of medical technology, human lifespan also increases. Therefore, a line should be drawn according to which one can decide to prolong one's life through medicine or not. With doctor-assisted suicide, which is when the patient receives a prescription to end their life painlessly, the elderly man pictured above could have avoided succumbing to such a miserable state. What should hospital staff do about this man? I am unable to fulfill his wishes by shortening his life because it would be illegal. Do they further extend his life or allow him to die with dignity? Even so, terminally ill patients should be allowed to decide their own fate because prolonging life with medicine is not living at all and the honor one has could be taken away. People should be able to decide what to do with their lives. The United States Constitution states that people have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This text on which our country was founded clearly states that people in the United States should have control over their own lives. An example in the film Let Me Die shows the perspective of an old man, who... in the center of the paper... Law on suicide." Mortality10.1 (2005): 53-67. Academic research completed Web. 10 April 2014. Knickerbocker, Brad. “Doctor-Aided Suicide: Pro-Life Forces Opt for Backdoor Strategy to Try to Curb Euthanasia Trend 1999: n April 2014. “Let Me Die.” Films on Demand. National Film Board of Canada, April 6, 2014. “Death with Dignity Act.” .Tucker, Kathryn L. “Assisted Suicide Works Well in Oregon.” Assisted Suicide Ed. NoëlMerino: Greenhaven Press, 2012. Current Controversies from "In the States Laboratory: Progress of the Glucksberg Call to States Address End-of-Life Choice." Michigan Law Review 106.8 (June 2009): 1593-1611. OpposingViewpoints in Context. Web. 16 April. 2014.