Of 27 states where measures to legalise assisted suicide were introduced this past year, none have passed into law. They were either stopped in committee or failed to be passed by both legislative chambers. Read more >>
Assisted suicide laws are universally flawed because they fail to account for the fact that terminal illness diagnoses are sometimes a mistake.
The American College of Physicians, the second-largest physician group in the United States with 152,000 members, has declared that physician-assisted suicide (PAS) is unethical. Read more >>
Continue Reading → UNITED STATES: Major US doctors group slams physician-assisted suicide:
The American College of Physicians, after studying the issue, has issued a policy statement against the legalization of assisted suicide. Read more >>
Continue Reading → UNITED STATES: American College of Physicians Opposes Assisted Suicide:
In Oregon, 48.9% of patients who ended their lives under the state’s assisted suicide act said that fear of being a burden was one of their reasons. We should be very worried by this, argues Charles Foster, a British medical ethicist. Read more >>