Our reasoning gives us the purpose of choosing to follow or not follow something. That being said, we are responsible for the choices we make. The IC says that we must always treat humans as rational beings. Our ability to reason and act morally is what gives us dignity. Our dignity allows us to have inherent moral worth. Anyone capable of reasoning is a precious being. A person has value regardless of whether someone may appreciate them or not. Human beings have a moral responsibility to respect all humans who are humans. The Humanity formulation prohibits the objectification of humanity. To act morally, you must respect the value of people who are truly above the price. Treating a person with dignity means recognizing them as a person capable of making rational choices. If you lie, hurt, or treat someone as if their only value is to be something you need or want, then you are simply treating them like a tool. Intention has nothing to do with Kant's theory. Thus, putting a patient to a silent death in order to spare them pain and not a miserable life would not be considered moral by Kant. At first you harm them by killing them. You are hurting the family because that may not be their wish. The nurse or doctor would lie to the family and possibly go against their wishes. You are taking away every chance at life they might have had. This would not be considered moral. Not only are you treating them like an instrument that you can throw away, but you are also harming/lying to their family and dismissing the patient. So let's look at the three steps of the CI procedure. Formulate the maxim; therefore I must help the patient to kill, in doing so I will enable the patient to no longer suffer or be sick, in order to promote the goal of increasing human well-being. Then simplify the maxim into a law of nature: everyone always asks for medical assistance in dying)