doctor-assisted suicide
Helping the vulnerable at risk for assisted suicide
By Charles C. Camosy — December 30, 2019
(RNS) — Physician-assisted suicide is one of the few issues that doesn't fall into the well-worn grooves of the culture wars. For that reason, we have a chance to resist it.
Why American doctors need to hold the line on physician-assisted suicide
By Charles C. Camosy — November 16, 2018
(RNS) — As younger physicians appear to abandon a longtime code of medical ethics, the trend is toward acceptance of a practice that raises questions about the very meaning of health care.
Canadian archbishop: Last rites can be denied to those seeking assisted suicide
By David Gibson — February 27, 2016
(RNS) The bottom line, said Ottawa Archbishop Terrence Prendergast, is that a Catholic who requests assistance in dying “lacks the proper disposition for the anointing of the sick."
5 things to know about death-and-dying debates
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — October 30, 2014
WASHINGTON (RNS) Brittany Maynard's choice to die prompts a look at the values and vocabulary of death, dying and decisions people make at the end of their days.
Gallup: Gay sex, divorce, extramarital sex reach new highs of ‘moral acceptability’
By Kevin Eckstrom — May 30, 2014
WASHINGTON (RNS) The Gallup Poll's annual "moral acceptability" scale has been conducted since 2001 and charts shifting cultural attitudes on a number of hot-button social issues.
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