Physician-Assisted Suicide: Respecting Patient Autonomy? Should Docs Respect Patient Autonomy by Allowing PAS?
In earlier periods of human history, physicians could do little to stave off death; now, improvements in public sanitation, and the many technologies of modern medicine have combined to lengthen the human lifespan, particularly in the developed world. The result is that, with its sophisticated health-care systems, most the population in these countries die … Read more