Legalizing assisted suicide in other states has led to a rise in overall suicide rates — assisted and unassisted — in those states.
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Scenarios that opponents of legal assisted suicide have conjured for decades but dismissed as a slippery slope arguments.
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In the beginning euthanasia was seen as a last resort in a situation of extreme physical suffering. Now, increasingly, euthanasia is considered to be a patient's right and is considered by some even to be a fashionable death."
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She fears there could be pressure on health professionals to use doctor assisted death to free up hospital beds if patients have consented in advance. “I am calling it death by doctor, not death with the assistance of a doctor, but death when the doctor decides you are going to die,” she said. “I don’t think health professionals want that as an approach.”
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