A friend of mine who's a nurse in the nero ward at one of the hospitals here acutally asked me and a couple of other friends a question like this when we were out for supper a few weeks ago. Her question was "If your best friend was terminally ill and they asked you for your help would you help them?"

At the time I didn't know what to answer because well to be perfectly honest my best friend sometimes has the tendency to be a little flightly (she even says that at times) but now after being given some time to think about it I think I would.

If someone I love is in so much pain that it hurts to live then yes I would help them in anyway possible, even if it's just being in the room while they did everything themselves. When I was in jr high my aunt died of cancer and it was very painful at the end for her, so painful that she was on pain meds 24/7 until the day she died. If it was legal and the option presented itself I'm sure a few people in my family would have helped her end the pain if they could have.

But I would only do it if it was something that they couldn't cure, something that wouldn't get better.