considering the advocated regulations(as well as those in place in oregon, the only state where this is legal) including the fact that the patient must be terminally ill, suffering intolerable pain, request it multiple times, and be unlikely to benefit from a cure in their short remaining lifetime. They usually only have a few weeks or months to live, with no chance of the pain they are experiencing subsiding. Should it be the patient's choice? Also, passive euthanasia (disconnecting life support - "pulling the plug") is legal everywhere and supported by 90% of the population as opposed to less than half for Physician-Assisted Suicide. I don't see how this is much different. I mean, basically if a particular patient is dying from lung cancer, and requires a respirator to breathe, he or she can be taken off of life support and be allowed to die; however, if the patient had bone cancer and is equally terminally ill, and in an equal amount of pain, they do not have the option of death.