The key to the debate on assisted suicide is to differentiate between legal rights and their implementation. Arguments about whether patients should have the right to die at the time of their choosing have been conflated with questions about how this might be provided and how it might affect the doctor-patient relationship (1-3); whether doctors are equipped to determine whether a patient is under undue influence from family members;(4) and whether the option of assisted suicide would diminish the standard of palliative care.(5)