Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Assisted Suicide....Legal or Not?

     In the book Dr. Death by Jonathan Kellerman,  Mate has been killed using his own killing machine and they are trying to decide weather or not it is okay that he has killed numerous people with their consent and the ability to use medicine. In this book you find out lots of little details but nothing that can lead you to who killed him. Trying to put all the clues together the investigators find out he has killed more people then they had previously thought.  Most of the investigators have decided that he was a killer and so it’s okay or even good that he is dead. One of the main suspects, Mates recent patients husband says “sonofabitch doesn’t deserve a life after he slaughtered my wife.” On the other side all the people who understand that he was doing and it was for the patients are sad he is dead. A few even said they thought about going to him. I personally think it is very sad that he is dead and the fact is everyone that he has helped asked him to kill them. I would have to say even though it’s not a good thing to kill people. He did it for the right reason and I think assisted suicide should be legal becasue they are trying to help the person out of their misery.