ferred to as physician-assisted suicide, in which the physician supplies information and/or the means of committing suicide, such as prescriptions for lethal doses of medication, to a terminally ill patient who wishes to end his/her life (Robinson). Dr. Jack Kevorkian, a Michigan physician, brought the issue of physician-assisted suicide to the forefront during the 1990's when he assisted at the deaths of hundreds of patients and was eventually charged and convicted of murder in 1999 (Robinson). Active euthanasia is also referred to as 'voluntary passive euthanasia,' while 'involuntary euthanasia' generally refers to terminating the life of an individual who has not requested aid in dying, such as those in a persistent vegetative state with no hope of recovering conscious
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