A Psychiatrist's Perspective on Assisted Suicide + More

HIGHLIGHT PIECE OF THE WEEK:
As Psychiatrists, Do We Offer Hope or Do We Offer Death?

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A psychiatrist writes, "To offer the option of a death facilitated by the very person who is trying to get them better seems so counter to everything I have learned and contradicts our role as psychiatrists who work so hard to prevent suicide." Keep Reading (6 min).

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The Progressive Case Against Assisted Suicide

Progressives must not support assisted suicide laws because they make second-class citizens of disabled and older individuals by effectively eliminating suicide prevention and offering suicide assistance instead.

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Assisted Suicide Easier to Access Than Real Health Care For Disability

"Every expansion of assisted suicide and euthanasia simply adds additional subsets of people with disabilities to the group of those who qualify or makes it easier, quicker, or cheaper for them to get it."

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UK Doctor Says Legalizing Assisted Suicide Will Endorse Death

"Legalization would mean palliative care would become 'subservient' to assisted suicide in hospices, as he said had happened in Canada with its Medical Assistance in Dying program."

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"End Assisted Suicide" is the group of plaintiffs suing the state of California to overturn the Assisted Suicide law there. Our 501(c)(3) sister organization, the Institute for Patients' Rights, has joined this ground-breaking lawsuit as a plaintiff. Below is the last of a frequently asked questions series.

Graphic with orange, yellow, and light blue geometric background. A green chat bubble. The word "Question" about the bubble, with these words in the bubble: "What do you say to the person who is at the end of their life and if you win, takes away their “option” of ending their life as they want?" Below, the word, "Answer" and this text: "We filed this lawsuit because your fears about our healthcare system’s failures are justified. We share them. But we don’t want you to pay with your life because our profit-driven system is too cheap to provide you with real choices. You have rights – know them. It is important to remember that regardless of assisted suicide laws, when it comes to controlling your life, specifically at the end of your life, all people need to know 3 things: 1- You have the right to an advanced directive. 2-You have the right to stop treatment and the right to begin again if you change your mind. 3 - You have the right to hospice care and palliative sedation."

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