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Philosophy – Moral and Ethics On June 26th 1997 the cases of Vacco v. Quill and Washington v. Glucksberg were decided as the prohibition against assisting suicide was not unconstitutional. They also went on to explain that it is each individual states job to decide what policy it would care to have regarding this issue. They felt that America needed to go on and be a democratic society as it always had been. This is not to say that rules prohibiting are unconstitutional nor are those that allow such actions. Many lawyers and bill makers have already set up on the field to start with legislation for and against such bills. There are many in the medical field that are trying to get their points out on the topic. The emphasis is on the idea of doctors playing an active role in the death of their patients. Much of this comes from the idea that withholding treatment is allowing a disease to run it’s course and not interfere with it coming to it’s final end of death. Whereas with physician assisted suicide the physician is taking an active roll in giving a patient a lethal drug to quicken the process so that the end result of death may be quicker. An argument against this is that a doctor is playing an act