Ezekiel Emanuel Quotes About Euthanasia

• Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia have been profound ethical issues confronting doctors since the birth of Western medicine, more than 2,000 years ago.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Suicide, Doctors, Ethical Issues

• By establishing a social policy that keeps physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia illegal but recognizes exceptions, we would adopt the correct moral view: the onus of proving that everything had been tried and that the motivation and rationale were convincing would rest on those who wanted to end a life.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Suicide, Motivation, Views

• Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Suicide, Physicians, Use

• Patients who are being kept alive by technology and want to end their lives already have a recognized constitutional right to stop any and all medical interventions, from respirators to antibiotics. They do not need physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Suicide, Technology, Physicians

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