Is physician assisted dying/suicide (PAD/PAS) just the first step onto the slippery slope of normalizing suicide? Should we democratize suicide for all autonomous citizens, stripping away the physician’s involvement and clearing the decks of the ruse of easily manipulated subjective…
Last month, the New York state Court of Appeals dismissed a case filed by three terminally ill plaintiffs asking the court to declare a constitutional right to "aid in dying," better known as assisted suicide. The judges wrote, "this Legislature…
Last month, two girls, one 14-year-old from Miami and a 12-year-old from Georgia, live-streamed their suicides on Facebook. Another 33-year-old man did the same in Los Angeles. There are 3 million teens in the U.S. experiencing major depressive disorders, a…
Two girls from Florida and Georgia, ages 14 and 12, live-streamed their suicides on Facebook last month. Another man, who was 33, did the same in Los Angeles. Three million American teens are currently experiencing a major depressive disorder. According…
“Silence gives consent,” according to St. Thomas More. That deafening silence was evident on CBS Sunday Morning last month during an interview with Barbara Coombs Lee, a leading advocate for physician-assisted suicide and president of Compassion and Choices. When did she…
According to Dr. Michael H. Sacks, professor of psychiatry at Cornell University’s Weill Medical College, “when patients kill themselves, it is a very painful and humbling experience for psychiatrists. A patient’s suicide punctures our therapeutic omnipotence and reminds us that…
Eva Feder Kittay’s essay, “Getting from Here to There: Claiming Justice for the Severely Cognitively Disabled,” magnifies the principle of social justice. Kittay, a SUNY-Stonybrook philosophy professor, asks if her daughter has legitimate claims to both protection and resources. With…
The classic Hippocratic Oath, translated by Heinrich Von Staden, requires a new physician to swear to the following oath: And I will use regimens for the benefit of the ill in accordance with my ability and my judgment, but from…