Despite one's medical condition, euthanasia should not be an end-of-life option. But what is euthanasia or assisted suicide? Euthanasia is defined as "inducing a sweet and easy death for a person suffering from a painful and incurable disease", while suicide, on the other hand, is "the intentional killing of oneself". Doctor-assisted suicide combines both of these definitions with the idea of ​​a doctor helping a terminally ill patient to die. Doctors can perform euthanasia by giving the patient a lethal injection or prescribing a lethal dose of drugs (“Euthanasia”). Active euthanasia is actually taking proactive steps to help a person die. Opposed to active euthanasia which is defined as "allowing one to die" and is used to describe the decision to refuse treatment, remove life support, etc. from a patient who may be in a coma or vegetative state (Issues and Controversies). The United States has long banned assisted suicide. People who help others commit suicide have been charged with murder, manslaughter, etc. For many years, right-to-die groups have attempted to change the laws to say euthanasia is compassionate. Compassion, when defined literally, means: “to suffer with another.” This is why the monopolization of the word by supporters of euthanasia and assisted suicide is so discordant. Euthanasia does not mean suffering with anyone. It's about using someone's suffering - and the pity it evokes - as a justification for killing (Miller et al. [40-41]). Right-to-die advocates were unsuccessful until 1994, when Oregon voters passed the Death with Dignity Act to allow physician-assisted suicide. The law was blocked for three years by critics and those who opposed the law. These people disputed the c...... middle of document ......ion for Mrs Crick, if she had been terminally ill, an autopsy had shown that her colon cancer had not returned, she would have She should have died naturally with people who cared for her and good palliative care. Of people who requested assisted suicide under Oregon's Death with Dignity Act, which allows doctors to prescribe lethal drugs, 46% changed their minds after significant palliative care interventions (relief of pain and other symptoms) ( Miller et al. [37]). How a society treats its weakest, neediest, and most vulnerable members tests its moral and ethical tone. To set a present and future moral tone that protects individuals at large and society, upholds the fundamental value of respect for life, and promotes rather than destroys our abilities and opportunities to seek meaning in life, we must reject euthanasia ( Miller et al.. [37]).