Just like the European Declaration of Human Rights guarantees Americans should have the right to refuse to suffer and live a life that is no longer productive to them. “It should be considered as much of a crime to make someone live who with justification does not wish to continue as it is to take life without consent,” stated Faye Girsh, EdD (chart 2).
One of the major claims that the opposing side of mercy killing has is that what if it gets out of control like it did in Holland. What if people start abusing the law? In the article If Mercy Killing Becomes Legal we read that, “In 1990, 1,030 Dutch patients were killed WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT” (par 11). But in “Debatewise,” we see that in other countries like the Netherlands and Switzerland, where the law is legal, they have strict legal guidelines that help ensure that the law is not abused and is not used in an improper