Canadian doctors who provide euthanasia struggle with the ethics of killing vulnerable patients
Canadian doctors who provide euthanasia struggle with the ethics of killing vulnerable patients
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Private forums show Canadian doctors struggle with euthanizing vulnerable patients
To me, it's unethical.
To me it's unethical to let someone suffer until they finally pass.
That's a false dichotomy.
The principle of double effect allows one to attempt to relieve suffering with treatments having high mortality rates.
Euthanasia is a cost-saving measure to avoid the high costs of palliative care for non-palliative patients, and in the examples cited in the article -- healthcare in general.