Patients Who Are Being Kept Alive By Technology And Want To End Their Lives Already Have A Recognized Constitutional Right To Stop Any And All Medical Interventions, From Respirators To Antibiotics. They Do Not Need Physician-assisted Suicide Or Euthanasia.

-Ezekiel Emanuel

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Patients Who Are Being Kept Alive By

Ezekiel Emanuel

Patients Who Are Being Kept Alive By Technology And Want To End Their Lives Already Have A Recognized Constitutional Right To Stop Any And All Medical Interventions, From Respirators To Antibiotics. They Do Not Need Physician-assisted Suicide Or Euthanasia.

Topic

Suicide

Technology

Physicians

We Had A Big Controversy In The United States When There Was A Limited Number Of Dialysis Machines. In Seattle, They Appointed What They Called A 'god Committee' To Choose Who Should Get It, And That Committee Was Eventually Abandoned. Society Ended Up Paying The Whole Bill For Dialysis Instead Of Having People Make Those Decisions.

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People

Decision