Tag: medically assisted suicide
When Darkness Traps People, Consider The System
EDITOR’S CORNER
If you’ve been following the news over the last week or so, you’ve likely read of Zoraya ter Beek, the young Dutch woman...
Medically-Assisted Suicide Is Not a Win for Mental Health
Medically assisting someone in suiciding because they’re poor or experiencing mental or emotional distress does not value life; it shows a blatant disregard for it.
Adam Maier-Clayton: Assisted Suicide and Mental Illness
If we describe “death with dignity” as a benefit, a good thing, a release and relief and a mercy for people with chronic unbearable and unmanageable pain, why do we also describe exclusions from assisted suicide for people with mental illness as a protection rather than discrimination?