This paper discusses physician-assisted suicides. Physician assisted suicide occurs when a physician facilitates a patient's death by providing the necessary means and/or information to enable the patient to perform the life-ending act (Physician-Assisted Suicide, 2000). Physician assisted suicide has been gaining support over the past half century in the United States, even though many physicians have been persecuted for participating in it. There are many issues involving physician-assisted suicides, some legal, some ethical, some moral. But the bottom line is choice: the terminally ill should be able to choose when they should die. This isn't a choice for anyone else to make. There are many arguments for and against PAS, but everyone can agree that it helps alleviate the suffering of both the terminally ill patient and their family.
