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Illinois should not legalize 'physician-assisted suicide.' There's too much potential for abuse.

In states where physician-assisted suicide is legal, I cannot help but ask if the people who ended their lives had adequate access to services like hospice and palliative care, a disability advocate writes. ....

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Rejecting arguments in opposition to medical aid in dying


Rejecting arguments in opposition to medical aid in dying | David Leven
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This opinion column was submitted by David C. Leven, JD, who has been working End of Life Choices New York for almost two decades.
T. Brian Callister s column is replete with factual errors and invalid arguments against what is now more properly termed medical aid in dying. People die by suicides who could continue to live, usually when mentally ill, often impulsively and violently. Their deaths are tragic. 
To the contrary, a terminal disease is killing those who take prescribed medications near the end of their lives to end their suffering, and they can only do so after a process involving at least two doctors, which generally takes weeks from the time the first request is made. These deaths are empowering. ....

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