Physicians, partners, and people with AIDS: deciding about suicide

In places such as The Netherlands and the US west coast, assistance in suicide has become a choice actually available to persons with AIDS. Hence, it is important to consider the "rational structure" of choices about suicide in AIDS. There are four principal levels of choice: (1) the question of active control over dying; (2) the question of holding out for a cure; (3) the choice of going early or going late; and (4) the question of what weight to give to the interests of others.