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Candy Coating Assisted Suicide

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By: T. Brian Callister

Source: Las Vegas Review-Journal

As a practicing physician and medical school professor with more than 30 years of experience, I know firsthand that hospice and palliative care are wonderful and underutilized resources for the terminally and chronically ill. One should also note that refusing medical interventions and medications at the end of life is both a reasonable and ethical option at times.

On the other hand, physician-assisted suicide — which could be on the agenda during Nevada’s current legislative session and is now being referred to by the candy-coated label “medical-aid-in-dying” — is an ethically absurd and morally corrupt intervention. It is overt killing at its very core.

First and foremost, physician-assisted suicide (PAS) creates perverse incentives to prematurely kill, not to just “aid in dying.” It also turns the physician into a complicit partner in this outright killing.

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Reno Gazette-Journal: Nevada Should Reject Assisted Suicide

Elderly holding hands

Source: Reno Gazette-Journal

By Dr. Kirk Bronander

In the past 20 years, more than 175 state campaigns to legalize assisted suicide have been introduced.  Most have failed and continue to fail, even in some of the most progressive states across the country. As a physician, I see assisted suicide as an unnecessary policy that harms rather than helps patients.

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Assisted Suicide Bill Fails to Win Support in Nevada

rj graphics templateNevada has become the latest state to say no to an assisted suicide bill. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that a doctor-prescribed suicide bill will not be heard in the Nevada state legislature. The assisted suicide bill will die without a hearing. Only a handful of states have legalized assisted suicide, indicating that such measures, when introduced in a state legislature, do not generally have widespread legislative support. Nevada joins Connecticut as the most recent state to abandon an assisted suicide bill this legislative session.

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