Is is appropriate to help someone end their life if they are a terminal patient and in pain?

Whitehorn, Katherine. "How to Die 'the Oregon Way'." The Guardian 13/10/2008 4. 7 Dec 2008 http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-article-display?id=SMN0307H-0-8629&artno=0000286577&type=ART&shfilter=U&key=&title=How%20to%20Die%20%27the%20Oregon%20Way%27&res=Y&ren=Y&gov=Y&lnk=Y&ic=Y.

This article was written by Katherine Whitehorn a journalist who appears in The Guardian newspaper in London which can be viewed as informational. This article focuses on the legislation in Oregon that allows people that are in pain and have terminal illnesses to receive assissted suicide. This article also talks about how it is very uncommon to receive assissted suicide and more common for the terminal patients to just stop eating and drinking all together which Whitehorn says is more unpleasent but much less upsetting to the families of the patients.

Ostrom , Carol M.. "How We Die." The Seattle Times 21/9/2008 A1. 7 Dec 2008 .

This article was written by Carol M. Ostrom who is a respected journalist that writes for the Seattle Times. This article is mostly about the legal issues with assissted suicide and doesn't talk about an actual occurence or the pros and cons of assissted suicide. This article states that the legislation of Seattle was trying to pass an assissted suicide law but there was much opposition because of the terms of the law and it was narrowly defeated by the opposition.