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  2. The Debate About Assisted Suicide

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  3. Department of Social Work to host Suicide Prevention Community Discussion

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  1. We have a right to die with dignity. The medical profession ...

    Proponents of assisted suicide, such as emeritus archbishop Desmond Tutu, argue that as people have the right to live with dignity, they also have the right to die with dignity.

  2. Opinion | On Assisted Suicide, Going Beyond ‘Do No Harm ...

    With the right safeguards in place, assisted suicide can help give terminally ill patients a semblance of control over their lives as disease, disability and the medical machine tries to wrest...

  3. Euthanasia and assisted suicide: An in-depth review of ...

    Assisted suicide is a condition in which the patient is the one who carries out the action that ends his life through the ingestion of a lethal drug but has been dispensed in the context of health care and therefore called assisted. This care is provided by a physician trained in the area.

  4. Against Assisted Suicide - Psychiatric Times

    Physician-assisted suicide is neither a therapy nor a solution to difficult questions raised at the end of life. On the basis of substantive ethics, clinical practice, policy, and other concerns, the ACP does not support legalization of physician-assisted suicide. …

  5. Arguments for and Against Physician-Assisted Suicide

    Physician-assisted death brings up moral, ethical, and legal questions. Source: Couleur/Pixabay, used with permission. Although September is designated National Suicide Awareness Month,...

  6. Choosing Death over Suffering | Bioethics - Harvard University

    For the first time, many physicians, regardless of specialty, are being forced to consider what the standard of care will be for informing patients about “assisted suicide” or "physician aid-in-dying ” (PAD).

  7. Focus: Death: Pros and Cons of Physician Aid in Dying

    In the United States, physician-assisted suicide or aid in dying has always been carefully distinguished from euthanasia. Euthanasia, also called mercy killing, refers to the administration of a lethal medication to an incurably suffering patient.

  8. Assisted Suicide: A Right or a Wrong? - Markkula Center for ...

    The case for assisted suicide is a powerful one--appealing to our capacity for compassion and an obligation to support individual choice and self determination. But, the case against assisted suicide is also powerful for it speaks to us of a fundamental reverence for life and the risk of hurling down a slippery slope toward a diminished respect ...

  9. Debate: Should Physician-Assisted Suicide Be Legal? : NPR

    Dr. Daniel Sulmasy, with debate partner Ilora Finlay, argues that policies legalizing physician-assisted suicide are unethical.

  10. Have Arguments For and Against Medical Aid in Dying Stood the ...

    And my understanding is that there is a key difference between palliative sedation and assisted suicide, particularly in that palliative sedation, the point is not to bring about the death of the person, but to relieve the pain that they are experiencing. And so the death is more of a side effect rather than the intended outcome.[28]