anasia becomes relevant. That condition is that the patient or client must be physically in extremis, whether the patient is competent or incompetent, rational or irrational. Thus living wills, whereby rational individuals provide advance health-care directives for voluntary active or passive euthanasia, should be respected as a matter of the individual's right, and as a matter of the individual's loved ones to act on his or her behalf, as against the mere existence of life-support technology and desire of technicians to use it, which have no moral claim. Hence the concept right to die obviously has a legal connotation to assisted suicide but also has moral aspects. It can mean
(1) "a right to be allowed to die," which would be a right of non-interference and would be exercised when one simply asked to be left alone and permitted to die a natural death. It also can mean (2) "a right to kill oneself," which would be a right to take one's own life free from interference by others (i.e., a right to unassisted suicide). Finally, it can mean (3) "a right to be k
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