Breaching the stalemate on assisted dying: it's time to move beyond a medicalised approach
Despite growing legal and medical support for assisted dying, many healthcare professionals do not want to be directly involved. Could a de-medicalised approach help to overcome this? Nancy Preston , Sheila Payne , and Suzanne Ost discuss Assisted dying involves a patient receiving drugs to end their life. There drugs are either self-administered (assisted suicide) or administered by someone else (euthanasia). Various countries, including Austria, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, and some Australian states, have changed laws to permit assisted dying.1 But debate about whether assi...
Source: bmj.com