Wednesday, June 17, 2015
"The perfectly drawn lines of the law" leading to "a new conception of suicide as a medical treatment"
This story by Rachel Aviv of The New Yorker can also be filed in the "horrifying" and "in case anyone accuses you of being scare-mongering to to warn about how quickly and far-off-the-rails we are going when it comes to human dignity" categories. It is about physician-assisted suicide in Belgium for people with non-terminal illnesses. Especially for those with psychological disorders, the distinction in theory between physician-assisted suicide and physician-promoted suicide is difficult to discern in practice.
https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2015/06/the-perfectly-drawn-lines-of-the-law-leading-to-a-new-conception-of-suicide-as-a-medical-treatment.html