When people first think about people wanting physician assisted suicide, or (PAS), they think that the person requesting it is suicidal, depressed, and or mentally ill, but what the patient really is just craving control and they should have the right to choose how they go. When one is dying, their life is a spinning, uncontrolled mess, they long to be in control of one factor in their life and that factor is how they die. Lonny Shavelson, a physician specializes in care of terminally ill, explains his clients wants, “It’s almost never about the pain, it’s about dignity and control” (Szabo). Shavelson knows his patients and understands their want of control and dignity, not death. One chooses everything in life, what to eat, what to wear
