With the passage of Bill C-14 last year, medically assisted death, or assisted suicide, has become a reality for physically ill patients with intolerable suffering and for whom death is “reasonably foreseeable.”
Continue reading Opinion: Treatment, not assisted death, for mentally ill peopleIf 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 dying