It’s called the End-of-Life Option Act. That sounds appealing — until you realize that one of the options on offer is killing.
Patients and doctors should have a full array of dignified end-of-life options. But there’s a reason, for two and a half millennia, doctors have taken the Hippocratic oath: “I will keep [the sick] from harm and injustice. I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody who asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect.”
Physicians devoted to their patients’ care should not be in the killing business.
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