Doctor- assisted suicide is the most popular topic among medical professionals currently. And their opinion is one of the most important opinions in this process because they are the specialists that are going to help the patients who want to end their lives with their assistance.

One of the things to be considered is what I found when I was doing my search about the opinion of the medical community. Knowing that it is too complicated and lots of considerations are to be taken into account when giving an opinion in such a critical issue like this, I tried to find something about a professional opinion from the Canadian Medical Associations where I came across lots of opinions that are against assisted suicide. And that makes me actually think again after knowing that, would I feel confident enough to do it considering that some of the professionals don't think that it is a good idea while in the same time, more doctors are for the legalization of doctor-assisted suicide. According to "the globe and mail" newspaper %44,8 of the Canadian doctors support the legalization of doctor- assisted suicide while %41,7 of them think it should not be legalized.

The Canadian Medical Association has already started to open the door for a discussion this issue. However, one assumes that all people who want to be doctors share the same dream of saving lives where saving people's lives would be for them the success that they dreamed of all their lives until they became doctors. Their dreams while performing their profession would be finding solutions and treatments to end peoples suffering and pain rather than ending their lives. Diseases would be the thing they would fight and try to find treatment s and cures. I don't think anyone dreaming to be a doctor will even think of ending people's lives.

Doctor-assisted suicide is a huge debate in the community. And one of the reasons that doctor assisted suicide is still a debate and critical decision to take, is because of all the different points of view that affect this decision whether to make doctor-assisted suicide legal or not.
One of these points of view is the church's opinion. The church is totally against doctor-assisted suicide. For the church, everything happens for a reason including suffering.
According to a priest I talked to, asking about the church`s opinion on the debate, suffering for the church has a divine meaning, and has a redemptive power on the lives of the people who suffer, their families, and friends. In Christianity, believers who devote their pain and suffering to be united with Jesus Christ will be rewarded with resurrection as well. An example, according to the priest, is prophet Job who lost everything he had except his faith in God, and he was rewarded by God for his patience, where he regains more than what he previously had.
After hearing all of this I had the question that probably most of you are thinking about now: why would God do all of this bad things to Job and then give it back. But actually it is not God who bombarded Job with all of these problems. God is the resource of goodness, and the bad things that happen to us sometimes are the result of our decisions, faults and bad things we do.
Lastly and most importantly, that our life is the gift of god's love to us. He gives it to us and he takes it back when it is time.
For Christians, this life is not given to mankind so the people can end it when they want, please or even when they have to. God gave us the freedom to do whatever we want; yet, life is still not among those things.

Brittany Maynard was a 29 year old woman with terminal brain cancer. Brittany Maynard said to (CNN) -- "On New year's day, after months of suffering from debilitating headaches, I learned that I had a brain cancer.". Doctors told Brittany that she had six months to live. As all cancer patients, the road would not be easy.
Brittany Maynard decided to end her life on her own term, and to have a good death surrounded by her family in her room.
Brittany and her husband moved from California to Portland, Oregon, U.S. where doctor-assisted suicide is legal.
Brittany Maynard was an activist and advocate for legalizing doctor-assisted suicide, she wrote an article for CNN and taped herself on a video footage describing why she was going to end her own life and what she was feeling.
For certain period of time, Brittany was part of the news, getting the attention of people and directed them again to the big debate that was on long time ago.
November first, Brittany did what she promised to do, with the help of her best friend who is a specialist. She ended her life.
I respect Brittany's decision and what she did. She ended her life on her own way, every one has his own ways to deal with problems, and that's what she did.
It is so hard to judge or say if it was right or wrong, when no one know how bad she felt and what was going on with her.
Life is uncontrolled and what happens most of the time that a big uncontrolled problem shows up in our life, so we turn our face and deal with other things that we can control so that we can feel powerful again.
I think part of Brittany's decision depended on her own way of thinking resulting in deciding to die without all of the suffer.

And as she said, she didn't want to die in such a young age like this, felt like it is not her time yet, but she was already dying.

During the recent period we have heard much about people wanting to kill themselves, to stop their suffering, and to have a good death, meanwhile the canadian still don't know if the law in Canada is going to change to allow euthanasia or doctor-assisted suicide .

According to a new report by the canadian medical association, the canadian public is divided on whether to ban doctor-assisted suicide or to make it legal.

Doctor-assisted suicide is when a patient with disease or a limited life expectancy choose to end their life with the help of a specialist.

But the main difference between doctor-assisted suicide and euthanasia according to (pages.drevel.edu) is that in assisted suicide the patient is in complete control of the process that leads to death because he/she is the person who performs the suicide act, the other person simply helps.

Quebec is the first province in Canada that has already adopted the "end-of-life-care-bill" on June 5,2014. The problem is still that this bill, that has already become a law, will take between a year to a year and half to implement and there is still a great debate among legislators, doctors, and citizens about it.

I've conducted a quick survey among students in my school, in which I asked them if they were for or against doctor-assisted suicide. I came across the following numbers:

AGAINST: %24.8

FOR: %68.6

IN BETWEEN: %6.6 

The students who participated in my survey were 105 students in grades 11 and 12. And as it is shown in the chart of numbers above %68.6 were in favour of, while %24.8 were not. Taking into consideration that %6.6 were on the same distance of both opinions. However, all participants expressed their opinions with a great deal of passion, as it involves every one of us in the community.