Physician-assisted suicide has long been a debated topic in the medical community and a source of intense moral controversy despite the countless attempts to tackle the centuries-old dilemma. In recent years, medical and technological advances have allowed us to treat illnesses that would otherwise be fatal, saving more lives than ever before. Yet as efforts to pull patients from the edge of death are strenuously made every day, the question about whether or not tortured, worsening lives should be mercifully ended grows louder. By comparing Kantian and utilitarian moral frameworks, one may…