Part 1 of Essay
An eighty-seven year old grandmother on a respirator, a newborn child with AIDS, and a father in a coma, all put to death by doctors with the O.K. of their families. But is it really O.K.? , or doctor assisted suicide, has become as common as jumping off of a fifteen story building or taking a gun to ones own head. Soc ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... take care of ourselves, exercise, or eat our vegetables, are going to die. We cannot escape this. As our population grows in this country the issue of will continue to be debated. "In 1995 two lawsuits were filed in New York and Washington State by a handful of terminally ill people and doctors claiming that the state laws that made assisting in suicide a criminal offense were unconstitutional.” What most people find troubling is how to define whom is terminally ill and how this process can be open to abuse. ....