The word terminal is a key word. If doctors give the patient six months to live and they are truly in pain then i believe that could be an acception. I feel that otherwise, taking someones life in
to your hands by helping them kill themselves is just unmoral. Its not assisting in a suicide but commiting a homocide.Plus, you're unsure of whether or not the patient will get better. Ending a life becuase of a medical condition is a grave decision that should involve a doctor. One doctor explained that one patient made a "remarkable recover" and was cancer-free at the time of his suicide. This is an example that proves that having the "right to die" could be a mistake on both the client and the assistant.

This is a complicated issue with which we as Americans seem unable to come to a consensus, unlike European countries.
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