The author argues that the standard ethical argument for physician-assisted suicide & voluntary active euthanasia, which appeals to the individualistic grounds of personal self-determination & well-being, is vulnerable to the challenge that it fails to address the relevant values of community. To meet this challenge, a communitarian approach to physician-assisted death is developed. The author defends voluntary physician-assisted death as a compassionate measure of last resort in terms of reciprocal responsibilities between dying patients & their caregivers & the responsibility of society not to abandon dying patients. Three objections to this position are critically examined.