Responds to Lavery et al.’s qualitative study of the thoughts & motivations of certain patients who might choose physician-assisted suicide (PAS). The authors criticize the study, arguing that their findings cannot be generalized to most people approaching death since their cohort of HIV/AIDS patients are particularly and importantly distinguishable from most dying people. Also, many of the patients were far from terminally ill & discussions on PAS as an option seemed to have been introduced by the investigators rather than participants. (3 refs.)