Terminally Ill Patients and Doctor-Assisted Suicide For hundreds of years a doctor has sworn the Hippocratic Oath. Although some parts of the oath have been discontinued at the moment, how they should be discontinued has been questioned. “Lest we do harm,” the question is, what counts as harm? With our modern technology in medicine, our medical community has the ability to extend a person's life for quite a while. So the question now is: do we prolong the life of a person who is suffering or is essentially alive due to harmful life support? Or is ending that person's suffering harmful? Death is just another part of life. We are born, we live and then we die. But who decides when, where and how to die? Another question is ethics and morals: what is the difference between killing someone and letting them die? Historically, God was thought of as the giver and recipient of life. As a child they told me that when someone died it was because God needed him or her. So, as mere human beings, are we disobeying our Lord by ending the life of a suffering person? Should ...