Physician Assisted Suicide Quotes

• Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia have been profound ethical issues confronting doctors since the birth of Western medicine, more than 2,000 years ago.

  Ezequiel Emanuel

  Suicide, Doctors, Ethical Issues

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• We don't let animals suffer, so why humans?

  Stephen Hawking

  Animal, Suffering, Euthanasia

  "Scientist Stephen Hawking backs assisted suicide", www.foxnews.com. September 18, 2013.

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• I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their own life, and those that help them should be free from prosecution.

  Stephen Hawking

  Pain, Thinking, Should Have

  "Stephen Hawking backs right to assisted suicide", www.foxnews.com. September 17, 2013.

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• En primer lugar, en principio, estoy en contra del suicidio asistido por médicos y, en segundo lugar, creo que es prerrogativa del gobierno federal controlar las normas sobre drogas. Y la idea de utilizar una sustancia controlada para acabar con la vida de alguien es algo con lo que no estoy de acuerdo. Puedo ver la idea de usar sustancias controladas para aliviar el dolor de alguien. Eso tiene sentido.

  George W. Bush

  Suicide, Pain, Believe

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• Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical.

  Ezequiel Emanuel

  Suicide, Physicians, Use

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• Patients who are being kept alive by technology and want to end their lives already have a recognized constitutional right to stop any and all medical interventions, from respirators to antibiotics. They do not need physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia.

  Ezequiel Emanuel

  Suicide, Technology, Physicians

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• What's important is that people give the kinds of reasons that can be understood and appraised apart from their particular comprehensive doctrines: for example, that they argue against physician-assisted suicide not just by speculating about God's wrath or the afterlife, but by talking about what they see as assisted suicide's potential injustices.

  John Rawls

  Suicide, Talking, Afterlife

  Interview with Bernard G. Prusak, www.commonwealmagazine.org. September 25, 1998.

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• By establishing a social policy that keeps physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia illegal but recognizes exceptions, we would adopt the correct moral view: the onus of proving that everything had been tried and that the motivation and rationale were convincing would rest on those who wanted to end a life.

  Ezequiel Emanuel

  Suicide, Motivation, Views

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