Should Assisted Suicide be Legal? Physician assisted suicide is a controversial and still illegal practice in the United States. Many terminally ill people are in unbearable pain that medicine cannot heal. This is the sad reality of many people in the United States and most of the world. Many religions find assisted suicide unjust, other people fall with the slippery slope argument, and some people say it is against medical ethics. The opinion on physician assisted suicide is determined by past experiences with the terminally ill (). Although, some people call assisted suicide a sin, it should be legal because it provides a terminally ill person a less painful, more dignified, and cheaper death. Sin is word that can have a controversial
