If someone is at the end of his life and his last dying wish is to have assistance with suicide rather than continue “waiting” for life to naturally end, shouldn’t we give it to him? There are, however, a number of issues that emerge in response to this very question.
Continue reading Assisted Suicide in Select Cases? by Stephanie GrayDeacon Larry Worthen, executive director of the Christian Medical and Dental Society of Canada (CMDS), worries that the care co-ordination service soon to start in Ontario will be too focused on the assisted suicide option, which allows patients to self-refer for assisted suicide or allow their families and friends to refer if they can’t find a doctor willing to refer for an assessment.
Continue reading Focus on life, not suicide, Christian Medical and Dental Society warnsAutonomy has become a slogan justifying almost everything. And like most slogans, it is almost meaningless.
Continue reading Autonomy: what a useless idea!By requiring that physicians make referrals for assisted dying, Ontario is forcing them to leave medicine or abandon their ethical framework.
Continue reading Physicians, conscience, and assisted dyingSeveral months since voters approved the law giving terminally ill patients in Colorado the legal right to end their lives with medication, a group that backed the law, Compassion and Choices, has launched an online tool to help people identify health systems around the state that allow doctors to prescribe the needed drugs. Read more >>
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