Is this a good introduction for an ethics paper about assisted suicide?

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Everyone remembers the case of Nancy Beth Cruzan the twenty-five year old whose car spun out of control on an icy Missouri road one cold night in January 1983. She was ejected from her car and landed in a ditch for twelve to fourteen minutes without oxygen to her brain and was left in a permanent vegetative state. After a ruling from the Supreme Court not denying her parents, Lester and Joyce Cruzan permission to remove her feeding tubes, in 1990 Nancy’s parents were granted permission to have Nancy’s feeding tubes to be removed where Nancy Beth Cruzan died twelve days, with her parents at her bedside. (Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health, Great American Court Cases, 1999 ). Reading this tragic story makes a person think; did Nancy’s parents have the right to take their daughter off of life support? Physician-assisted suicide according to University of Washington School of Medicine is a practice in which a physician provides a competent, terminally ill patient with a prescription for a lethal dose of medication, upon the patient's request, which the patient intends to use to end his or her own life. (University of Washington School of Medicine) Is it ethical for doctors to help chronically ill, suffering patients commit suicide to help “end their pain"?