A person asking for euthanasia or assisted suicide represents a failure in the health system and society in general. Something went wrong somewhere.
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“Assisted death” is not a constitutionally mandated service, as some have characterized it. To permit is not to mandate.
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In the face of criticisms that allowing physicians to conscientiously object to providing euthanasia treatment would cause unnecessary suffering for patients, one must consider what the role of physicians is and whether or not conscientious objection complements that role.
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More than twenty years after my trip to The Hague, I was again being given access to protocols to end patients’ lives. Only, this time, it was in my own country. In my province. From my College. I never thought this day would come. And I am still chilled.
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"Euthanasia? Assisted suicide? There’s an app for that"... This remark aptly underscores the rapidity with which discussion of what was called, not very long ago, mercy killing has become normalized, even banal.
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