This article reviews the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that the U.S. Constitution does not guarantee terminally ill patients a right to an assisted suicide. A Seattle group, Compassion in Dying, had argued that terminally ill, mentally competent people have a constitutional right to assisted suicide & that the state’s interest in preventing sucides does not apply to these people. The court ruled that in this case state interest outweighs any constitutional right of liberty.