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Reasons to Reject Physician Assisted Suicide/Physician Aid in Dying

by JCO Oncology Practice

Physician Assisted Suicide or Physician Aid in Dying is fundamentally inconsistent with the physician’s role as professional and trusted healer. The physician’s professional role is to use his or her knowledge, insight, and healing skills to aid the patient, not to kill the patient.

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Answers to common questions about physician-assisted suicide

by Carrie Gordon Earll
January 1, 2017

People living with terminal illness deserve more than the offer of a physician to facilitate their death. They merit true compassion and that’s not found in a bottle of pills. True compassion is when people come along side you in this journey.

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The euphemism of ‘death with dignity’

by Sue Bohlin

Brittany Maynard, a young woman with an incurable brain tumor, recently took her own life rather than suffer through a painful, difficult descent into natural death. She had moved from California to Oregon, which is a “right-to-die” state that allows terminally ill people to be assisted in ending their lives on their terms.

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Should doctors support the Living Will?

by Christian Medical Fellowship

It is not difficult to appreciate the popular appeal of the living will. People realise that at some time they are likely to end up in hospital or in a long stay institution and lose their autonomy. Decisions may be taken without their consent and against their wish.

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