The Guardian view on assisted dying: the law is flawed.
Senior Judge S. Joseph Davis, brought in from Seminole County, found that Florida’s strict privacy law and the equal protection clause in the U.S. Constitution entitled Hall, 35, and Dr. McIver to carry out an assisted death without fear of prosecution (Sun-Sentinel, 1A).
This is the second week of essays in our assisted-dying series. All of the first week’s articles can be found here. Assisted dying is already happening in places where it is seemingly illegal.
The issue of Physician Assisted Suicide also known as euthanasia has significant legal and ethical implications. There is a delicate balance between voluntary and involuntary physician assistance. There are associated policies and legal precedents that have in some ways have shaped the framework of imminent discussion.
Her desperate plea is featured today in the British Medical Journal, which has urged for the law on assisted dying to change. It currently carries a maximum jail sentence of 14 years in Britain.
The campaign group Dignity in Dying wants a law allowing assisted dying. In contrast to euthanasia and assisted suicide, assisted dying would apply to terminally ill people only.
Physician-Assisted Suicide Essay: The Roles of Doctors Physicians are responsible for carrying out assisted suicide. If the patients themselves request death to put an end to interminable pain and suffering they are passing through, the role of physician is not killing but performing his role to hasten the death of terminally ill patients.
Assisted suicide is the act of deliberately assisting or encouraging another person to kill themselves. If a relative of a person with a terminal illness obtained strong sedatives, knowing that the person intended to use the sedatives to kill themselves, they may be considered to be assisting suicide.