The article discusses the ethical issues involving physician-assisted suicide. Also cited are the arguments of professors Peter Singer and Andrew Solomon in favor of the legalization of assisted suicide, the position by Baroness Ilora Finlay and Professor Daniel Sulmasy against the issue, as well as the classical principles of medical ethics as listed in the "Principles of Biomedical Ethics" (7th) edition, by T. L. Beauchamp and J. F. Childress.