LONDON, May 15, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A majority of British doctors say they have received patient inquiries about assisted suicide, and fully three-quarters (74%) said they would refuse to provide assisted suicide even if it were legalized in the UK. A majority of 56% of the 986 doctors polled said that it is impossible to set safe bounds to the process. The study was done as a growing number of British citizens are travelling to Switzerland to commit suicide with the help of the suicide group Dignitas. In April, a British couple, Robert and Jennifer Stokes, are thought to have taken a lethal dose of barbiturates in a Dignitas-owned death-apartment. Mr. Stokes, 59, suffered from epilepsy and his wife, 53, from diabetes and back problems. Neither was thought to have been terminally ill, the BBC reported. For BBC News coverage: https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3023081.stm
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MOST BRITISH DOCTORS OPPOSE ASSISTED SUICIDE
LONDON, May 15, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A majority of British doctors say they have received patient inquiries about assisted suicide, and fully three-quarters (74%) said they would refuse to provide assisted suicide even if it were legalized in the UK. A majority of 56% of the 986 doctors polled said that it is impossible to set safe bounds to the process. The study was done as a growing number of British citizens are travelling to Switzerland to commit suicide with the help of the suicide group Dignitas. In April, a British couple, Robert and Jennifer Stokes, are thought to have […]
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