Most terminally ill people don't want to die faster, they want to live as long and as well as possible. The fact that a doctor or a nurse or any other professional comes to a patient and tells them that one of their options is to be killed right away—I know we don't like that kind of language, but that's what we are talking about—is a way of taking away their hope. My colleagues in palliative care could tell you more about this. It is like telling patients that it is not worth continuing to fight for their life because there is nothing more to be done.
Even so, the physician has the power to—