Claim: "Assisted Suicide Won't Up Deaths for Vulnerable Groups"

HealthDay reports:

Legalizing doctor-assisted suicide does not lead to a "slippery slope" of excess deaths among the vulnerable poor, uninsured, elderly or other patients, according to a U.S. study in the October issue of the Journal of Medical Ethics.

A long treatment of the question of euthanasia by the American Psychological Association concludes: "Given the current state of the discourse on assisted suicide, it seems premature for the discipline of psychology to take a stand supporting or opposing assisted suicide."

Yes, some questions are much more difficult to answer without universal moral principles.

I think it would be beneficial to devote next week's bioethics essay to the topic of euthanasia. Stay tuned.