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Intentionally terminating life (ITL) and doctors’ direct involvement (DITL)
Intentionally terminating life (ITL) is usually assumed to require a doctor to perform it. However, it does not. We do not discuss this here. If ITL becomes a medical responsibility, the profession changes to incorporate a new duty to end some people's lives. This is the most significant moral question in medicine. This article intends to clarify several ethical confusions that can derail one's personal analysis.
Assisted dying: Association for Palliative Medicine responds
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New Hampshire’s Barbaric Practice of Jailing Psychiatric Patients Must Stop
(May 23, 2016) The Treatment Advocacy Center is leading the charge against the bizarre and inhumane practice of imprisoning civilly committed psychiatric patients who haven’t committed a crime in New Hampshire (“Lawsuit likely in NH’s imprisoning of non-criminal mentally ill patients,” InDepthNH, May 17).
“You Promised You Wouldn’t Kill Me”
(Sept. 16, 2015) The Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office released a disturbing video last week showing the violent struggle with officers that preceded the death of Natasha McKenna—a 37-year-old woman suffering with untreated severe mental illness (“Virginia sheriff releases video of effort to subdue inmate who died,” New York Times, Sept. 10).
“On Losing My Darling Natalie” - Doris Fuller, personally speaking
(Mar. 19, 2015) I lost my darling daughter Natalie to terminal mental illness last weekend. She killed herself one month short of her 29th birthday by stepping in front of a train in Baltimore.Natalie and I wrote a book together when she was 16: Promise You Won’t Freak Out: A Teenager Tells Her Mother the Truth About: Boys, Booze, Body Piercing, and Other Touchy Topics (and Mom Responds).
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