bodies get weaker, making conditions tougher and tougher to recover from. Because of this, many older adults suffer with conditions that doctors have determined as terminal, struggling throughout their daily lives with physical pain and the pain of believing that they are just a burden to others. Additionally, our populations are continuing to grow, and as we grow our older population is growing as well due to the improvement of healthcare around the world. The problems of elder healthcare as a whole and specifically physician-assisted suicide will only continue to become more prevalent as time goes on. Because of these explanations, this is something that should be corrected as soon as possible.