Discussion Post
• How can you be sure such patients are sane if the state grants them the right to assisted suicide? The fact that they want to end their lives may reflect their suffering from clinical depression or another mental illness.
• Wouldn't a patient from a low-income family be more inclined to seek assisted suicide to spare their family member from having to take care of them and pay their expenses in their declining years. Isn't it unfair that the pressure to end one's life is at a higher level for a poor person in contrast to a rich person?
• Should any efforts at assisted suicide involve a physician supervising the proceedings? If so, wouldn't that be a violation of the physician's ethics in that he/she is doing something that violates the Hippocratic Oath that instructs physicians to "First do no harm"?
Article: "Maryland considers legalizing medically assisted suicide".
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