Physician-Assisted Suicide

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Physician-Assisted Suicide | Society Does Not Support the Legalization of Physician-Assisted Suicide

Ezekiel J. Emanuel is an oncologist and chief of the department of clinical bioethics at the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health.

Source: Public opinion is shifting against physician-assisted suicide. Society does not support the legalization of acts that end the lives of terminally ill patients. Modern medicine has made great advances in the fields of pain management and end-of-life care, making physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia unnecessary. Consequently, proponents of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia may be part of a dead...

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