This paper addresses the matters of suicide and euthanasia. What one believes about living and dying will have a determining influence on whether we/they will embrace or oppose death for themselves or others. A powerful mixture of transference and countertransference feelings is brought into play when the specter of death rises to haunt the therapeutic situation. All of us, analysts included, may be confounded by the complex of moral and philosophical issues and by the feelings they tend to evoke. Our attitude toward our own or another's decision to die is inextricably bound to the question as to who should make the decision regarding our own life or those of others. The crux of the countertransference resistance, the source of the difficulty we have in allowing others to die by their own choice, lies in the fact that we do not want them to die because of the effect their death will have on us.