Death with Dignity of Choice

Somehow, I don't quite understand people who are so vehemently against the Oregon Death with Dignity Act (aka. Doctor-Assisted Suicide).

If people can have a choice over giving birth (or not), then why not death?
If people can have a choice over getting married (or not), then why not death?
If people can be put to death involuntarily (capital punishment), then why can't people choose their own deaths, their own destinies?

Provided that friends and family accept it, then why is this so wrong?

Are we so used to the idea that we are helpless against death? Does the idea of accepting and even embracing death as freedom really scare us so much?

But you know what's scarier than death? Being trapped. Having no choice. Waiting to die. (a lesson I learned when I was in Hong Kong for my grandmother's funeral recently)

If life is painful, doctors as healers, who try to extend our lives, would only become the deliverers of pain ... since they can't completely heal us anyway. They are only halfway-healers if they can't admit their insufficiencies.

What, did you think choosing death over life is somehow the easy way out? To survive is an instinct. Therefore, one must truly have a persuasive reason to choose death over survival. Parting is never easy, as we are so used to living. But at some crucial point in a life, we must accept that there could be something better beyond living in this life, if living means being having no choice at all. If living is freedom, then I say don't let freedom be your cage.