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They are doing harm by allowing someone to live in pain when there is no cure. If the patient is terminally ill and requesting to be euthenized under those circumstances then the government is committing a human rights violation by stopping the doctor. The doctor has an obligation to treat the person and keep them from the pain of sickness and injury when his/her services are retained. If the retainer can only live in pain then the doctor must, if asked to, help that person die in a humane way. The 5th amendment applies only to trials, it no more restricts the actions of the public than the 1st amendment. It is a bill of rights for a representative republic, not a democracy.

Are you saying that the Fifth Amendment prohibits the taking of life only during a trial? It actually states the opposite! It states that the only time it is permissible by law to take life is through “due process of law”--i.e., through proper trial and conviction. The Fifth Amendment expressly prohibits life from being taken under all other circumstances.

Further, the Hippocratic oath prohibits doctors from giving “deadly medicine to any one if asked,” and even from suggesting it.

If you want it to be permissible for doctors to take life, you will have to throw out the Hippocratic Oath and you will have to amend the Constitution.

If the hippocratic oath prohibits doctors from fully performing their duties then let's throw it out the window; its "services" are no longer required if that is the case
You wouldn't need to amend the constitution if you actually read the friggin bill of rights. The 9th amendment says that just because a right is not listed doesn't mean it doesn't exist. And it's not denying anyone life. It's making their last days on Earth bearable. The states are under no obligation to prosecute everyone for every action that results in way in someone dying. If they were then a lot of people would be on death row right now. No one would work in the defense industry for fear of a malfunction killing military personnel, no one would work in the embedded systems section of the computer industry, heh no one would work for tire manufacturers!