O'Connor (2015, para. 2) Bleeken states that "he could not face the rest of his life in prison." According to Bleeken's summary, B. Wolcott (2015), it was "indicated that life imprisonment would cause him 'unbearable psychological anguish'." By this definition, it is clear that Bleeken wishes to resort to physician-assisted suicide because he would like to end the suffering he is currently experiencing in prison. However, ethical egoism states that one must weigh the long-term and short-term benefits of a decision on oneself. For Bleeken, one of the long-term benefits is that he will no longer have to serve his life sentence after 30 years. Another long term benefit is that there is no chance of Bleeken committing these acts again since he will have died. However, in terms of short-term benefits, I personally don't see any, except to reiterate that he would have to serve a small prison sentence if he ended his