Physician-Assisted Suicide (PAS) is one of the most controversial ethical issues in our society today. Many have speculated about the benefits or dangers of physician assisted suicide. But whether it should be legally approved is a questions with no easy answer. In PAS medical help is provided to enable patients to perform an act that is specifically intended to take his or her own life, for example, overdosing on pills prescribed by the physician for that purpose. PAS should be distinguished from euthanasia, in which it involves the physician performing an act that is specifically intended to end a patient’s life, through for example, lethal injection. The phrase such as “aid-in-dying” or “physician assisted death,” which can merge together
