What are your thoughts on assisted suicide?

This is an extremely emotional question for me, because I have a very dear friend who lives in another country completely on the other side of the globe from me who is terminally ill. We chat online daily and have done for years.

He takes prescription morphine for constant pain, and there is much more to the story that I won’t go into here. Suffice it to say he’s not going to get better, only worse. His doctors feel that his days are few.

He started talking about suicide a few months ago. Today, in our online discussion, he began to question what he was waiting for.

Is there a time when we should let go either as sufferers or as caregivers? Can suicide be justified?

Those are dreadful questions to ponder when you’re intimate with the situation.