Colombia on Thursday became the first Latin American country to authorize assisted medical suicide for patients under a doctor's supervision, according to a constitutional court decision. The country's highest court ruled that a doctor can help a seriously ill patient take their own life by consuming a lethal drug, without risking going to jail. Colombia already allows
Colombia on Thursday became the first Latin American country to authorize assisted medical suicide for patients under a doctor's supervision, according to a constitutional court decision.
Dr Syme pushed for voluntary assisted dying after an epiphany in 1974 when he was unable to relieve the pain of a patient with cancer of the spine and was haunted by her screams.
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