The Supreme Court unanimously rejected both arguments about Euthanasia. The justices found it quite reasonable to differentiate treatment refusal from assisted suicide. When doctors honoured patients' right to refuse treatment, they let the underlying disease take its course. No medical system could operate ethically that routinely forced treatments on patients against their will.
             Assisted suicide however is not rejection of invasive treatment, a doctor who assists suicide is not letting disease take its course; rather the drugs (or a different way) directly cause death. Anglo-American law has disapproved of assisted suicide for over 700 years. The courts feel that allowing this might raise concerns about abuse, and destroying patients' trust, trust that physicians will honour their commitments to cure and care but never harm. The government can't take the risk of making it legal cause they know that this will cause more problems for the future.
             People who don't like the idea of assisted suicide say that there is a protected interest in rejection of life-sustaining cure and that there is a de facto right to sufficient pain relief.
             A majority of Americans favour the individual right to assisted suicide, but that depends on the poll, which has to be at least over 50 to 70 percent. Although most Americans are for the assisted suicide they still want the courts to take the overall judgement on the issue.
             The court shifted the decision to each individual states, so the people can exercise their voices so they can be heard. According to the court, assisted suicide is not a decision for the patients and doctors to decide, but for state legislators, most of which
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