"Die with Dignity?"

     Shamefully when it comes to having a set opinion on my topic, I don't have one. I am biased on many different points of 'physician assited suicide,' one being whether it is a sin. In church it is said that people who commit suicide will ultimately go to hell. There are no exceptions or loop-holes, if you commit suicide then oops, it's hell for you buddy, who cares if you were suffering from day to day? So, because I grew up in church, I am obviously expected to believe that suicide is wrong, but what if there are legitimate reasons?
     Before I started to research my topic I was fully against assisted suicide, I didn't care what the conditions were, but now after reading story after story of what some people have to go through, I have a different view. 'Physician Assisted Suicide' is only available for those who are terminally and hopelessly ill, so actually, they are going to die soon. So, here's where I am stuck, is it wrong for a terminally ill person to commit 'assisted suicide?'
   Peter Rogatz, writer of  "The Positive Virtues of Physician Assisted Suicide", states," the physician’s obligations are many but, when cure is impossible and palliation has failed to achieve its objectives, there is always a residual obligation to relieve suffering. Ultimately, if the physician has exhausted all reasonable palliative measures, it is the patient—and only the patient—who can judge whether death is harmful or a good to be sought."
     So, like Rogatz says, after a physician has run out of options, should they fulfill their obligation to relieve that patient's suffering if the patient wishes? Who is the physician to deny them their rights?

Rogatz, Peter. "The Positive Virtues of Assisted Suicide." the Humanist. Humanist,
     Nov/Dec 2001. Web. 19 Feb 2011.