Is Assisted Suicide Ethical?

More than 5.7 million people each year end up in intensive care units (ICUs) at hospitals due to a wide array of life-threatening issues. Some of these patients are in the ICUs to find comfort as they reach the near end of their lives. But some of them, like Paul, are too depressed to see the end of their lives and believe that they'd benefit more by ending their lives quicker using euthanasia. Euthanasia is defined by Merriam Webster as " the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals (such as persons or domestic animals) in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy". Euthanasia is synonymously called mercy killing or assisted suicide. Paul asked his physician E. Wesley Ely "but can't you help me die, Doc?" after detrimentally facing lung fibrosis and pneumonia. He had no family nor friends that could comfort him through this difficult time, but he found joy in listening to Lord of the Rings...