Physician assisted suicide is a prevalent issue facing healthcare providers and consumers in the United States today. The following research investigates arguments supporting and opposing the utilization of physician assisted suicide in relation to healthcare ethics. First, ethical principles will be defined, focusing on the most common principles that will be utilized as arguments in the following literature. Those principles will then be contextualized and evaluated in the literature review, focusing on the relationship between physician assisted suicide and common ethical values. The literature presented is based on information from the United States to keep data consistent with the national healthcare system and common American ethical values. The findings of this review will then be summarized and reflected to reiterate the arguments for and against physician assisted suicide. The paper intends to provide readers with impartial ethical considerations pertaining to the topic of physician-assisted suicide.