A professional ethic is a gyrocompass pointing in a precalibrated direction. It neither trumps all countervailing claims nor capitulates to anyone. This article argues that grounding legal permission for suicide in a medical professional ethic is unnecessary & misleading. The premise that suicide must be medicalized to be licit improperly shifts the authority for the act from an authentic exitential stance to a medical judgement of death as therapy. Patient-centered beneficence is discussed.