Is unnecessary, because alternative pain management treatments exist and are currently being improved. Undermines important pain and medical research, since it alleviates the necessity for developments in treating fatal illnesses and advancing pain management. Fractures the doctor-patient relationship, by conflicting with the traditional role as healer. Professionals are supposed to care for and protect that vulnerability. Victims represents a cry for help from the clinically depressed.
Intent is typically transient.
Circumvents the dying process. Lots of my dying patients say they grow bounds and leaps, and finish all the unfinished business. Changes the public conscience. Nor did I feel it in any way unethical or immoral. Real compassion for the dying comes through meeting all their needs, physical, emotional, and spiritual.