Wouldn’t Legalized Assisted Dying Lead to Abuse?

Legal change with strict controls could reduce the current problems of inappropriate aid-in-dying by physicians and significant others, and ensure quality of care for the dying, by opening up the decision process, requiring documentation and supporting evidence in the case of each death, and including strong clinical guidelines and criminal penalties for any violation.

Legal change with strict controls could reduce the current problems of inappropriate aid-in-dying by physicians and significant others, and ensure quality of care for the dying, by opening up the decision process, requiring documentation and supporting evidence in the case of each death, and including strong clinical guidelines and criminal penalties for any violation.