Understanding Depression – A Christian Perspective (an imaginary conversation with Dr Lachlan Dunjey based on similar interviews) I understand you’ve been talking about depression now for a long time, how did this come about? Well I had done a term in psychiatry after graduation and one of the things that I was doing in my […]
Medically assisted killing is not necessary. As a society we must not break, we must not destroy this foundational Code of Medicine to ease the way, but never to kill.
Let’s be clear – we must never give legal approval for people to die and doctors must never be involved in killing. To give compassionate and skilled medical care to the very end of a patient’s life, to ease the way, yes, that is our role and duty and privilege, but never to kill.
This article highlights the fact that in some studies euthanasia and physician assisted suicide is requested for pain relief in only about a quarter of people with the majority being for reasons of personal autonomy “this is what I want, and I will have it”.
