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Euthanasia Awareness The euthanasia movement was upset in 2002 when Nancy Crick, a supporter of active euthanasia, committing suicide by swallowing a fatal dose of medication. At the age of 69, Ms. Crick was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Several friends and family members, who accompanied her at the time of her death, were devastated to learn that the autopsy showed no evidence of new cancer that would have caused her "terminal" death. With this news, the physicians with the Australian Medical Association reconfirmed their standing against active euthanasia (Steel 32). Human life is sacred and no one should have the right to take that life, therefore active euthanasia, or assisted suicide, should remain illegal. Death should come naturally, with medications as needed to control pain and suffering, but without assisted suicide. Others feel that active euthanasia is the answer and try to promote this as the "dignified death." Controversy over euthanasia creates a problem because people are exhausting valuable time, energy, and resources on trying to legalize euthanasia when the existing laws are already adequate. Euthanasia is the term most people associate with helping someone commit suicide, ye