The Cat
Assisted Suicide: A Medical Oxymoron
by Suzanne Fields
[Pro-Life Infonet Note: Suzanne Fields is a nationally syndicated
columnist.]
A patient falls ill in one of Voltaire's philosophical tales and the
author observes: "Despite the attention and ministrations of the leading
medical doctors of Europe, he survived."
This is the sardonic wit we should apply to a debate today: Should a
physician who has sworn to do no harm be allowed, legally, to help a
patient kill himself with prescribed lethal doses of barbiturates? This is
not about Dr. Kevorkian, the infamous Dr. Death, now serving a prison term
for murder. The courts finally would not accept his oxymoronic euphemism......
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