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Brian Cox
  • Brian Cox
  • Cardiff By The Sea, CA
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Euthanasia: In favor or opposed?

Some questions to get you thinking:

Should patients be allowed the right to die?
Are doctors obligated to assist patients with their dying wish?
Should assisted suicide be illegal?

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Topics: Assisted Suicide Beneficence Doc-Patient Relationship Euthanasia Medical ethics autonomy ethics
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  • Samuel Price

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    Jul 21 2012: Fundamentally this is a question of education. Instead of the term "euthanasia", for which many people have an aversion to, the term should be "physician-assisted suicide". Thus we should begin the conversation of how we can compassionately assist those who are terminally ill, to decide how and when they wish to leave this life.
    To die with dignity is a human right.

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