From a legal point of view, if the patient were not already terminally ill, it would be easy to see it as manslaughter. Assisted suicide is a sort of hybrid between active and passive euthanasia. It is an active process, but the third party only provides the advice or means to achieve death, and the patient is the one who administers the intervention that leads to death. For example, if a family member provides a firearm to a terminally ill patient and tells him where to aim to hit major organs, this would be an example of assisted suicide. Because of the possibility of unintended consequences from a layperson providing this information, terminally ill patients seeking assistance with suicide plans may seek the advice of experts on the human body: doctors. This leads to the concept of physician-assisted suicide, in which a doctor provides the advice and sometimes the means (the prescription) to achieve death. This could be achieved by providing a legal prescription for a painkiller such as morphine or oxytocin, but giving instructions to the patient