All dying needs to be assisted. If there is controversy now about this it's probably because humanity is still developing its theory of mind. Theology will need to adjust itself to the reality of death and human advancement, and atheism will need to raise its conversation to reconcile humans to death.
For me, I feel like two decades of hard labor trying to figure out what's happening to and around me have come to a fitting a close. I'm reconciled to death, and to life - I don't think the dichotomy is real.
I've crossed the Rubicon and what's left is pure bliss.