Assisted Suicide
Assisted suicide refers to the act of helping another individual to terminate his or her own life. It includes availing tools to another individual which that particular individual would use to prematurely end his or her own life. An individual may also directly assist another to end their life by killing that person upon request by that particular individual (Forman & Schumann, 2008; Humphry & Wickett, 1986). Assisted suicide may be legal or illegal depending on a society’s culture or a given legal jurisdiction. There are societies which advocate for assisted suicide to terminally ill individuals if they ask to be ...
