Are We Entitled to Dignify Our Own Death?

If you have a Facebook, TV, or even the internet you most likely have seen the news of the recent self assisted suicide. Although I respect her decision, I absolutely do not agree with it.

For one, I feel there was no effort to TRY and treat it. I know the odds were against her, but in my opinion...life is so far from being understood, who knows how fast a treatment can be found. Why give up when you still have life in you?

I am not super religious but what I have noticed is she is completely comforted by the fact of dying, what about after death? Is she not concerned that the higher power will feel her lack of a fight as suicide? Does she not fear the sin she is committing as her last dying wish? I am to fearful of my God to test his reasoning and as a family member, I would be terrified she lost her invitation to whatever golden gates you believe in.

I would not be able to say goodbye to my family by choice, if I am forced to leave this world forever I will go out kicking and screaming. Why does death have anything to do with dignity? Do we live in such a selfish world we have to look and be our best even at the most terrifying part of our life, a part we are all destined to? Is death a statement we feel we have to make, a signature we sign by how well we go??? I am so saddened a person felt they had to "die with dignity". Dignity is for the living, not the dying.

Are we all so ignorant we forget that our days are all numbered? That its not about how long we have to live, but how live those days until nature calls us. Are we so entitled that we feel we should have the right to decide our own dying fate? In that case, lets all choose our date of death now, so we can all "die in dignity" out of fear of the unknown.

Life is so much more than living and dying, we don't get a choice as to why we are here and how long we will stay. It is not good to play with the cycle of life.