Food for thought! What about the Hippocratic Oath?
Is term euthanasia or assisted suicide (may depend on your ideological preference)? Are they both interchangeable or equivalent?
According to Google: "The main difference is who performs the final act: euthanasia involves a doctor or another person administering a lethal dose of medication (active, direct act by another). Physician-assisted suicide (or medical aid-in-dying) involves a doctor prescribing the lethal medication, but the patient must self-administer it."
According to Google: "The main difference is who performs the final act: euthanasia involves a doctor or another person administering a lethal dose of medication (active, direct act by another). Physician-assisted suicide (or medical aid-in-dying) involves a doctor prescribing the lethal medication, but the patient must self-administer it."
Do individuals have the freedom or are they allowed to end their life when choose to do so, because of old age or suffering?
Should hospice care strictly separated from euthanasia? Or to what extent?
What safeguards are needed or in place to e.g. prevent bad actors from killing hospice patients?
I recently blogged here that e.g. the Kessler Twins both committed assisted suicide together in 2025 at age 89. The list of prominent individuals who chose euthanasia is getting longer (caveat: I did not double check every name).
Caveat: I did not read the article.
"There has been a dangerous shift in medicine over the years. Priorities have moved from curing disease to managing death. Those of us of a certain age can well remember watching television shows and movies depicting doctors and nurses doing everything possible to save lives. Until relatively recent times, this is how the medical profession was seen. ..."
