what is physician-assisted suicide
physician-assisted suicide (PAS), voluntary termination of one's own life by administration of a lethal substance with the direct or indirect assistance of a physician.
The term is often used interchangeably with physician-assisted suicide (PAS), which involves a doctor knowingly and intentionally providing a person with the knowledge or means or both required to commit suicide, including counseling about lethal doses of drugs, prescribing such lethal doses or supplying the drugs..