Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide A JOINT STATEMENT BY DOCTORS AND LAWYERS1. Introduction Euthanasia is the deliberate act of putting an end to a patient’s life for the purpose of ending the patient’s suffering. Physician Assisted Suicide (PAS) is the death of a patient as a direct consequence of ‘help’ by a doctor. (For a definition of terms used, please see the end of this document.) Whatever the intentions claimed for euthanasia or PAS, this is nothing less than killing a patient. The ethical question remains — can it ever be right to kill, even with the intention to relieve...