by Stephen Jamison

About the author: Stephen Jamison directs Life and Death Consultations, a bioethics education program, and facilitates workshops on life and death decision making. He is a former regional director for the Hemlock Society U.S.A., a group that seeks to legalize physician-assisted suicide.

In my presentations the same general questions are asked again and again, regardless of the setting and the audience. I offer those questions here and provide some of the responses that I have often given. Most of these questions require each of us to draw our own conclusions. As a result I have no “answers,” only comments....

Flaws in Current System

Would legalized aid in dying be better than the current practice?

The drawbacks of the current practice are obvious. Patients who are suffering...