People around the world can choose when they want to die, but in a nation that prides itself on personal freedoms, that choice has already been made for you. U.S. laws not only encourage unprofessional behavior by doctors and nurses to help patients get what they want, but they also breed a feeling that assisted suicide is a taboo topic for discussion. Assisted suicide is only legal in two states in the United States, Oregon and Vermont (Rogatz 39). If it's legal in two states, why is it illegal in the other forty-eight? It should be a federal law that makes it legal in all 50 states so that people who want the option to end pain do not have to spend money and valuable time at the end of life to move to a hospital in another state that allows it. assisted suicide. Swiss, German and Danish citizens have the right to die