In homes around the world, millions of victims suffer from life-threatening or terminal illnesses. With death knocking at their door, should these people have to endure pain and misery knowing what awaits them? The answers to these questions are very controversial. Furthermore, there remains a more important question to answer: Should these people have the right and opportunity to end the unrelenting pain and agony through medical assistance in dying? PAS physician-assisted suicide is very controversial because it induces conflicts on several moral and ethical issues such as who is the real director of our lives. Is suicide an individual choice and should humans' top priority be to relieve pain or do we suffer for a purpose? Is suicide a purely individual choice? Having analyzed and even experienced the effects of physician-assisted suicide, I fully promote and support its legality and provisions. Physician-assisted suicide PAS or physician-assisted death PAD is the voluntary end of life primarily by taking a prescribed lethal substance (usually a barbiturate). by a doctor (Friend, Mary and Louanne, 2011, p. 110). In each case, the patient explicitly came to the conclusion of hastening his own death from a terminal illness. Four of the fifty states in the United States have legalized physician-assisted suicide: Oregon, Washington State, Montana and, most recently, Vermont (May 2013). On November 8, 1994, Oregon was the first to legalize medical assistance in dying. Through a ballot measure, the Death with Dignity Act legalized the process of medically assisted dying, but under strict protocol. Similarly, Washington State passed the Ballot Initiative 1000 and Vermont passed the Patient Choice and Control... law - two similar legal laws...... middle of paper ...... ds-live&scope=siteStrate, J.M., Zalman, M., & Hunter, DJ (2005). Physician-assisted suicide and the politics of defining the problem. Mortality, 10(1), 23-41. doi:10.1080/13576270500030974Weir, R. F. (2002). Physician-assisted suicide [electronic resource] / Robert F. Weir, publisher Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press. Retrieved from http://0-search.ebscohost.com.umiss.lib.olemiss.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,url,uid&db=cat02590a&AN=olemiss.b5089246&site=eds-live&scope=site; http://0-search.ebscohost.com.umiss.lib.olemiss.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=23187Zeldis, N. (2005). To be or not to be: Terminal illness in cinema and in life. Nursing Forum, 40(4), 129-133. Retrieved from http://0-search.ebscohost.com.umiss.lib.olemiss.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,url,uid&db=cmedm&AN=16371123&site=eds-live&scope=site