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Article: Death on Demand: The Assisted-Suicide Movement Sheds Its Fig Leaf.(Jacob Appel's article on the assisted suicide for mentally ill patients)
- Article from:
- National Right to Life News
- Article date:
- August 1, 2007
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Should laws against assisted suicide be rescinded as "paternalistic?" Should assisted suicide be transformed from what is now a crime (in most places) into a sacred "right to die"? Should assisted suicide be redefined from a form of homicide into a legitimate "medical treatment" readily available to all persistently suffering people, including the mentally ill?
According to Brown University professor Jacob M. Appel, the answer to all three of these questions is an unequivocal yes. Writing in the May-June 2007 Hastings Center Report ("A Suicide Right for the Mentally Ill?"), Appel argues that assisted suicide should not only be available to the terminally ill, but ...