Opinions on Euthanasia and Assisted SuicideThis essay explores the opinions of doctors, the general public, and the original Hippocratic Oath on the practices of euthanasia and suicide assisted. Considerable reference material from professional sources is used. Regarding doctors' opinions on euthanasia and assisted suicide, it is difficult to get a true picture of doctors' opinions from newspaper articles or magazine articles. Because euthanasia and assisted suicide are new and a challenge to established values, a report on a single doctor practicing assisted suicide is more likely to be published than a report in which members of a large medical organization reaffirm traditional values. Doctors who practice euthanasia and assisted suicide have been more vocal and vocal as many consider themselves pioneers. While many doctors who continue to practice according to traditional ethics see no need to publicize this fact. Even reading the consensus statements of medical ethics groups can give you a distorted idea of ​​doctors' traditional opinions. These statements are usually written by a small group of doctors, many of whom are active in ethics groups because they want to see change. Several articles have been published probing doctors' opinions on euthanasia and assisted suicide, and these articles will likely come close to doctors' actual opinions. In a survey of physicians on the management of persistent vegetative states, 35% of physicians would never withhold food or nutrition, and 28% would always treat an acute infection or other life-threatening condition (1). In a survey of 355 oncologists, the majority found euthanasia or assisted suicide unacceptable. However, one oncologist in seven had actually practiced euthanasia or assisted suicide (2). Thirty-seven percent of physicians who care for AIDS patients would be unlikely to assist a patient with known AIDS to commit suicide, but 48% said they would probably do so (3). 48% of Washington state's 1,355 doctors agreed that euthanasia is never ethically justified, but 33% said they would be willing to practice it (4). Forty percent of Michigan's 1,119 physicians involved in the care of terminally ill patients favored legalizing assisted suicide, and 17 percent favored banning assisted suicide. 22% of doctors would participate in assisted suicide or euthanasia (5). Regarding the general public's opinions towards these two practices, two-thirds of cancer patients and the public consider euthanasia and assisted suicide acceptable for cancer patients with unremitting pain. (6).