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Assisted suicide
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Assisted suicide is suicide committed with the aid of another person, sometimes a physician.[1] The term is often used interchangeably with physician-assisted suicide (PAS), which involves a doctor "knowingly and intentionally providing a person with the knowledge or means or both required to commit suicide, including counselling about lethal doses of drugs, prescribing such lethal doses or supplying the drugs.”[2] Assisted suicide and euthanasia are sometimes combined under the umbrella term "assisted dying", an example of a trend by advocates to replace the word "suicide" with "death" or ideally, "dying". Other euphemisms in common use are "physician-assisted dying", "physician-assisted death", "aid in dying", "death with dignity", "dying with dignity", "right to die" "compassionate death", "compassionate dying", "end-of-life choice", and "medical assistance at the end of life".
Physician-assisted suicide is often confused with euthanasia (sometimes called "mercy killing"). In cases of euthanasia the physician administers the means of death, usually a lethal drug. Physician-assisted suicide (PAS) is always at the request and with the consent of the patient, since he or she self-administers the means of death.
According to several studies, more than half of the oncologists polled have received requests from a patient wanting to end their life.[3] Physicians are only allowed to prescribe lethal medications in jurisdictions where it is legal, regardless of what the patient wants or the prognosis for their disease.
Discussion of assisted suicide centers on legal, social, ethical, moral and religious issues related to suicide and murder. Hippocratic Oath[edit]
Physician-assisted suicide is contrary to the original Hippocratic Oath that has been in use since the 5th Century BC, stating "I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked, nor suggest any such counsel".
The Declaration of Geneva[edit]
The
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Assisted suicide is suicide committed with the aid of another person, sometimes a physician.[1] The term is often used interchangeably with physician-assisted suicide (PAS), which involves a doctor "knowingly and intentionally providing a person with the knowledge or means or both required to commit suicide, including counselling about lethal doses of drugs, prescribing such lethal doses or supplying the drugs.”[2] Assisted suicide and euthanasia are sometimes combined under the umbrella term "assisted dying", an example of a trend by advocates to replace the word "suicide" with "death" or ideally, "dying". Other euphemisms in common use are "physician-assisted dying", "physician-assisted death", "aid in dying", "death with dignity", "dying with dignity", "right to die" "compassionate death", "compassionate dying", "end-of-life choice", and "medical assistance at the end of life".
Physician-assisted suicide is often confused with euthanasia (sometimes called "mercy killing"). In cases of euthanasia the physician administers the means of death, usually a lethal drug. Physician-assisted suicide (PAS) is always at the request and with the consent of the patient, since he or she self-administers the means of death.
According to several studies, more than half of the oncologists polled have received requests from a patient wanting to end their life.[3] Physicians are only allowed to prescribe lethal medications in jurisdictions where it is legal, regardless of what the patient wants or the prognosis for their disease.
Discussion of assisted suicide centers on legal, social, ethical, moral and religious issues related to suicide and murder. Hippocratic Oath[edit]
Physician-assisted suicide is contrary to the original Hippocratic Oath that has been in use since the 5th Century BC, stating "I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked, nor suggest any such counsel".
The Declaration of Geneva[edit]
The