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Originally Posted by MysticCat
Maybe I'm straining at gnats here, but is there a difference between having a "right" to do something (at least legally) and it being ethical to do something? I think there probably is.
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I'd say there certainly is.
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I think that's why I have a problem with it . . . physician-assisted suicide/euthanasia makes it my decision as to when, not the Lord's. Even if I might legally have the right to decide when I will die, ethically (or religiously, if you prefer), I do not think I have any such right at all.
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I agree here as well. However, my beliefs should not dictate what another person does with his/her own body.
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Originally Posted by AOII Angel
As a physician, I am completely opposed to physician assisted suicide but completely supportive of withholding any artificial measures to prolong life if requested by the patient or power of attorney. Having a physician assist in a suicide is asking him/her to disregard the first tenant of medicine "First do no harm."
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If assisted suicide were ever fully legalized, there could be an entirely separate category of medical professionals who would handle this sort of situation - ones that are not bound by the tenants of medicine.