In this book, the author Joseph Azevedo writes on behalf of those who oppose legalization of assisted suicide. He explains that patients do not have the constitutional right to choose whether they should be assisted in suicide. Legalization produces a fear among doctors and the public, that could ruin their confidentially. Joseph also points out that patients want to die because they are depressed and in fear of that eventually their disease will cause them to suffer unmanageable pain. He concludes that states are constitutionally prohibited from making it legal for doctors to give mentally ill patients the prescriptions to kill themselves. A draw back that this source has, it that it was published back in 1997, over 20 years ago. This can
