ABSTRACT
This chapter takes a critical look at the practice of physician-assisted death. While bioethicists have assumed that physician-assisted death is positive, Baril notes that the desire to die is considered rational only when one is either terminally ill or disabled, or on the basis of suffering that only is categorized by means of some medical diagnosis. This, Baril argues, makes the practice of physician-assisted death is fundamentally ableist and sanist. While Baril holds that people should have access to aid in dying, the practice of physician-assisted death is beyond reform.
