Submitted by Abiding Care Pregnancy
Resource Center, Medford, Wisconsin
In October 2012, Ezekiel Emanuel wrote an article titled “Four Myths About Doctor-Assisted Suicide” that was published in the New York Times. In the article, Emanuel explains why assisted suicide is not necessarily a “Good Death.” Emanuel wrote:
“The last misconception about assisted suicide is that it is a quick, painless and guaranteed way to die. But nothing in medicine -- not even simple blood draws -- is without complications. It turns out that many things can go wrong during an assisted suicide. Patients vomit up the pills they take. They don’t take enough pills. They wake up instead of dying. Patients in the Dutch study vomited up their medications in 7 percent of cases; in 15 percent of cases, patients either did not die or took a very long time to die -- hours, even days; in 18 percent, doctors had to intervene to administer a lethal medication themselves, converting a physician-assisted suicide into euthanasia.”
Last week Kaiser Health News published an article promoting a new assisted suicide drug cocktail. The article also explains a few of the horrific details associated with the current assisted suicide drugs.
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