DOCTOR ASSISTED DEATH (DAD) WON’T WORK: a pragmatic point of view Philip G. Ney MD FRCP(C) 16/1/13
DOCTOR ASSISTED DEATH (DAD) WON’T WORK: a pragmatic point of view Philip G. Ney MD FRCP(C) 16/1/13 Much like other “liberalizing” policy promoters, those who champion assisted suicide have not attempted to determine if it works. If you ask them they won’t tell you because they have no data, whether or not assisted suicide is good for anybody. Is it good for the relatives, doctors, undertakers, country? Nobody knows because where it is now being done, no one is collecting sensitive statistics and those who are eagerly urging government to adopt these “progressive...
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Ambivalence. Everybody is ambivalent about everything almost all the time. If you respond to one side of the ambivalence you push a person definitely to the other. The harder you push, the harder they are resolved to defend their apparent position which isn’t necessarily their position at all. This difficulty is reflected in opinion polls and bad research which don’t allow people to respond on a continuum between the extremes e.g. “always” and “never”. Dying. You don’t die until you are tired of living. You become tired of living when: a) the pain won’t go away, b) you...
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