Entry n 49: Should physician-assisted suicide be legalized?

Imagine you are suffering from a terminally ill; would you choose an assisted suicide rather than continue living with such a pain? Physician-assisted suicide is an issue of controversy nowadays because there are people against the legalization of this practice as well as there are others that support it.
On the one hand it have to be consider the painful style of life with which people who are suffering from a terminal disease is living. They are not only suffering a physical pain, but also a mental one because many of them are conscious that sooner or later they are going to die.
What is more, there are many patients that can not support the costs of expensive treatments or the supply of medicines for the rest of their lives. Added to this is the fact that many treatments can be more harmful than the illness itself, such is the case of the chemotherapy for the treatment of cancer.
Many terminally ill patients would choose to die while they are able to do it consciously than to living in continuous pain and consequently watching their relatives suffer for them.
On the other hand, from the religious point of view legalizing physician-assisted suicide is considered to be a murder, in other words it would be a sin. Religious groups claim that no one is allowed to decide on other people`s life, they blame doctors and also patients of playing to be Gods. That is why doctors who assist these practices are persecuted, as is also the case of doctors who assist abortions.
Taking all these into consideration, I believe that physician-assisted suicide should be legalized but with a thoughtfully planned policy in order to prevent possible crimes, as for example the case of relatives that want to freedom themselves of a terminally ill patient who is unconscious. In this way physician-assisted suicide would be a merciful practice and a way of giving terminally ill patients a dignifying death.