The deviant behavior I chose to write about is Death with Dignity. It is where a person with a terminal illness wants to end their life with dignity and without pain. They want to be able to choose the day and time of their death and not let the disease define and take them. There are only four states in the United States that have a medical examiner for assisted suicide and those are Montana, Oregon, Vermont and Washington. There are requirements that must be met before you can be considered for assisted suicide. You must be 18 years old, be a resident of that state, be able to make and communicate your own health care decisions, and be diagnosed with a terminal illness that will lead to death within six months. A qualitative study” says that medically assisted death refers to interventions by a doctor that intentionally help a patient to die, giving him the lethal means to end his life at his explicit request, a medically assisted suicide, or directly ending the a patient's life. (Phillipa J Malpas) The University of Auckland Human Participants Ethical Community conducted a study to find a qualitative approach to find the reasons why older, healthier individuals are against medically assisted dying at the end of life. The method they used is sample selection and they did this by placing an advert looking for people who were against medically assisted dying, who were aged 65 or over and lived in Auckland. Approximately 8900 surveys were published, to which only 23 people responded and of these only 11 were selected. None of them were offered money for participation in this study. They did interviews so they could understand the term euthanasia. They found that whether a person experienced death and the death of a loved one influenced some participants in terms of how they viewed medically assisted death. The results they found were that five individuals who experienced a good death and a death strengthen their opinion that there was no need to rush the dying process. Eight participants expressed that whether a doctor or they do it themselves they are engaging in deviant behavior. If you are a doctor you should help your patients and not end their lives. When doctors commit this act, they can be charged with manslaughter or even murder. The first doctor accused of this deviant act was Dr. Jack Kevorkian who assisted over 40 of his patients in suicide in the state of Michigan. He was found guilty of second-degree murder and served an eight-year sentence out of 10 to 25 years