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Physician Assisted Suicide: Legal in the United States
"If only physician assisted suicide had been available to my father, as it is to the people of Oregon, I have no doubt he would have chosen it over taking a pistol to his head," says daughter of Lesley W. Angell (Angell 2). Angel suffered from prostate cancer for years, and eventually "it spread throughout his body driving him to commit suicide" (1). Having physician assisted suicide in the United States legal to terminally ill patients would make their deaths more peaceful and less painful for their families. Physician assisted suicide, also known as PAS, is a type of euthanasia that many physicians, patients, and families are in favor of.
Physician assisted suicide has been a very controversial subject for many years. Physician assisted suicide is when a drug is prescribed to a patient by a doctor and the patient takes it on his or her own (Roberts 23). PAS is both desirable and inevitable; not making it legal in some......

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