Physician-Assisted Suicide & Ethical Values
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Physician-assisted suicide has been regarded by some as a logical adjunct to treatment of the terminally ill. It is becoming fairly widely accepted on the basis that it relieves suffering and empowers the patient to facilitate that relief. However, these arguments gloss over the true foundational issue underlying physician-assisted suicide: complicity to render an unethical practice acceptable by cloaking it in the guise of mercy.Brody and Miller (1995) state categorically, ôIf medicine is essentially a healing enterprise, then physicians should never help patients die.ö They reference Leon Kass, whose position is that ôthe essence of medicineùits inner normative meaning and purposeùis healing, which physician-assisted death contravenes.ö If the goal of medicine is to heal, then physician-assisted suicide not only mitigates against that goal; it defeats it. Although ôFirst Do No Harmö is not actually in the Hippocratic Oath as generally believed, it is still the basic premise that medical practice must be constrained to observe. Even the Co
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