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HIGHLIGHT PIECE OF THE WEEK:
Dr. Joseph Marine Writes Assisted Suicide is the Wrong Prescription
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"What patients with advanced illnesses and disabilities need instead is more support and greater access to excellent palliative care, hospice care, and pain management programs. America has some of the best health care in the world. We should use it and not undermine our health care system with assisted suicide laws. It is the wrong prescription."
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We Need Better Palliative and Hospice Care
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"No one who has a serious or potentially terminal illness wants to experience pain or other suffering. But pain can be dealt with by good palliative care. The bigger and often unmet need is for quality home care services to live as well as possible to the end."
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Co-Convenor of Not Dead Yet UK Speaks Against Assisted Suicide
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Co-convenor of Not Dead Yet UK said, “Until social care and palliative care are available to everybody to a certain level, the talk about assisted suicide is really frightening, because what we know from the research is that people are likely to want to end their lives if they feel they’re a burden to others."
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Safeguards Debated as Bioethicist Warns of Unintended Consequences
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"The trouble with assisted suicide laws is that they present death as a neat and tidy way to solve one’s problems. The alleged safeguards are inadequate, and as they have gradually eroded, more and more people come to believe that death can solve their problems too," writes bioethicist Philip Reed.
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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 one of the many reasons why this group is fighting against the assisted suicide law in California.
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If you’re in crisis, there are options available to help you cope. You can call or text the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at any time to connect with a trained crisis counselor. For confidential support available 24/7 for everyone in the U.S., call or text 988 or chat at 988lifeline.org.
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