Kuhse says: “…he [Nesbitt] also implicitly assumes that death is always and everywhere an evil” (Kuhse 299). Perhaps if death were not considered an "evil", then perhaps active euthanasia as a form of mercy killing would be considered a plausible action to take when a patient is suffering from pain. a terminal illness or suffering greatly. Kuhse uses the truck driver incident to show readers exactly what she means by mercy killing. As the co-driver could not get out of the truck during the accident and was burned alive, he asked the other driver to shoot him, in order to put him out of his misery, which the driver did . Rachels would more than likely agree with the actions of this truck driver, as well as many others, including myself; Nesbitt, and others like Nesbitt, may suggest that the truck driver has no right to kill a man, that killing him would still be murder, and that is false. Although it may technically still be a form of murder, the truck driver acted as any human being with empathy and compassion would act towards someone, or something, which is dying and in great pain. Kuhse even suggests that if there were more people like truck drivers in the world than us, “we should take comfort in their presence” (Kuhse 298). In some cases, ending the life of a person who is in great pain, whether or not they specifically request active euthanasia, should be an option considered, because it