Did you know that today approximately 57% of doctors have received a request for assisted suicide due to the suffering of a terminally ill patient. Suffering has always been a part of human existence and these demands have existed for as long as medicine has existed. Furthermore, there are two principles on which all organized medicine agrees. The first is that doctors have a responsibility to relieve the pain and suffering of dying patients in their care. The second is that doctors must respect patients' competent decisions to refuse life-sustaining treatment. Basically, these principles state that patients over the age of 18 who are mentally stable have the right to choose to take their own life if they are suffering from pain. As of now, Oregon, Washington, and Vermont have legalized physician-assisted suicide through legislation. Montana legalized it via court ruling. The first Death with Dignity Act (DWDA) went into effect in Oregon in 1997. Washington and Vermont subsequently passed this act in 2009, and Montana passed the Rights of the Terminally Ill Act in 2008. A concern about assisted suicide from the doctor is the confusion between the patient's condition. congratulations. To eliminate any confusion and provide evidence in the event that someone becomes terminally ill, people should develop an advanced care plan. The two main lethal drugs used during physician-assisted suicide are secobarbital and pentobarbital. Proper reporting is required when dispensing these drugs and performing suicide in order to publish an analysis. Studies found that large numbers of people accepted this procedure under certain circumstances; therefore, physician-assisted suicide should be legal in the United States because terminally ill patients over the age of 18 who are... half of the paper... and: ongoing challenges for pharmacists." American Journal Of Health- System Pharmacy 68.9 (2011): 846-849. CINAHL Plus with full text. Network. 19 February 2014. McHale, Jean, V. "Assisted suicide: a right to professionally assisted dying?". : 250-251.CINAHL Plus with full text. Network. March 6, 2014.Orfali, Robert. Death with Dignity: The Case for Legalizing Physician-Assisted Death and Euthanasia. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Mill City Press, 2011. Print .Reynolds, Joanne and Sue Croft. “Application of Preferred Care Document Priorities in Practice.” Nursing Standard 25.36 (2011): 35-42. CINAHL Plus Network. 24February 2014. Stutsman, Eli 'years of living with Oregon's Death With Dignity law.' GPsolo 30.4(2013): 48-51. Academic research completed. Network. February 24, 2014. US Food and Drug Administration. Np 27 February 2014. Web. 27 February. 2014.