Study: Assisted Suicide Has Frequent Mishaps
BOSTON, Feb 24 (LSN.ca) – A Dutch study published in Thursday’s edition of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has found that assisted suicide does not go smoothly for about 1 in 5 patients. The findings shatter the “death with dignity” mantra of an easy and peaceful death. In 18 per cent of the 114 cases of assisted suicide studied, there were so many problems that the attending physician decided to see to the death of the patient personally by administering lethal drugs changing the cases to acts of euthanasia. Dr. Johanna Groenewoud of Erasmus University in Rotterdam found […]
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